[UK-CONTEST] 2128MHz ssb contest

[Jonathan G0DVJ]

Dave, All,

I agree with your observations on the bands totally.  I was surprised 
how long a duration the JA opening was on Sunday.  10m was hopeless - 
we didn't continue right to the end - putting in rather a social effort 
than a serious one and wanting to clear up and get away before total 
darkness and torrential rain arrived.   Hence we probably missed the 
later openings on 10m.

We had a few G's call us but rather just quite newly licensees (or at 
least new to HF) and I tend to agree that they just don't bother to 
check the rules.  Anyway I don't see it as a problem to quickly explain 
and give them a report anyway.   I don't see that we need to change the 
rules to allow inter-G working.  It's a DX contest mainly and nice to 
have some events with such an objective.  I work the SP DX contest 
every year and I always get a few calls in the 24 hours from non-SP 
stations which I have to refuse for contest purposes.  There  are lots 
of examples of these types of contest when one country works the world. 
  Why change ours to fit another category of all works all.

What surprises me, given the low level of UK activity generally and the 
limited numbers of UK stations in particular, is that so many stations 
from around the world choose to look for us and take part.  It must be 
quite a job to find new G stations to work after a short while.

So my personal opinion FWIW is to maintain the status quo - leave as is 
- and continue to educate the uninitiated !!

73,
Jonathan G0DVJ
part of the G4IRC/P team.
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On Oct 4, 2004, at 3:32 pm, Dave Sharred wrote:

> I thought I should also share my views with those on the reflector!  
> I'll
> post the scores separately, and later.
>
> Conditions seemed strange; 10m didn't get going until much later; and 
> then
> (towards the end) we were able to work stations in Europe on 
> backscatter;
> and even a few W's with a very Skewed path (225 degrees !!!)
>
> 15 m was better on Saturday; it seemed then wide open to the States, 
> but
> again , took a while to develop. Worked a good number of JA's though 
> in the
> morning.
>
> I was surprised at the large number of G's that called, obviously 
> unaware of
> the rules. We worked some at the start, and obviously they won't score 
> .
> However, I wondered what the strength of opinion was on this point - 
> should
> we be able to work other G's, maybe at a lower points per QSO than 
> non-G's??
> Should we just take the country multiplier then , for inter-G calls, 
> or use
> the postal code info ???
>
> I say this for a few reasons - I didn't like turning people away; it is
> obvious that there are some of the casual ops that are unaware of the 
> rules,
> but just partaking; and, with the decline of the sunspot cycle, might 
> this
> be a good idea to try to maintain some activity??  Inter-G QSO's are 
> not
> always the easiest of things to work, since propagation does not really
> support this; but, at the start and end of the contest, it would be 
> easier
> for G's to work each other on a quiet band!
>
> In my opinion, I would say yes - but at a lower points per QSO for 
> inter-G;
> and we claim G mults, say 1 point !!  Then, we are not overtly 
> encouraging
> inter-G QSO's.
>
> Suggestion - if you have any opinions on this; feel free to post them 
> here,
> but  put some comments on your "soapbox" comments that you submit with 
> your
> log
>
> Dave Sharred
> G3NKC
>
> OP :  GD0EMG