[UK-CONTEST] 21/28 MHz CW Contest G3BJ

[Les Allwood]

Why keep Club Calls? Or do you mean Club Championships?

73 de Les, G3VQO

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Wylie" <t.wylie at ntlworld.com>
To: "Don Beattie" <g3ozf at btinternet.com>; "Uk-Contest at Contesting.Com" 
<uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 21/28 MHz CW Contest G3BJ


>I have around 50 logs for the 21/28 SSB Contest split about 50/50 UK and
> overseas.
>
> I just got back from holiday last night so I havent looked at them in
> depth - there are more that an few with the log title 21-28 SSB.LOG  hihi
>
> I havent looked at sopabox comments.   Most cabrillo logs dont have any.
> Some of the overseas are in non cabrillo formats.    So far I dont have 
> any
> paper logs - I think Steve has retyped a couple.
>
> Personally I'd scrap the contests as I feel they have outlived their
> interest.
>
> Perhaops its time to scrap ALL the Contests and keep just four -
>
> AFS
> Club Calls
> An Amalgamated field day  SSB/CW and RTTY  (Come on I can hear you now)
> and ONE other Contest like field day only run from
> home - multi band/mode - ONE weekend a year....
>
> I of course exclude the IOTA Contest  which I dont count as an HFCC 
> Contest.
>
> Donning my flame retardant suit
>
> Tom
> GM4FDM
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don Beattie" <g3ozf at btinternet.com>
> To: "Uk-Contest at Contesting.Com" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:10 AM
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] 21/28 MHz CW Contest G3BJ
>
>
>>I support all Peter, LET's, comments.
>>
>> The plan here was to enter reasonably seriously to test out the new SO2R
>> box, but to do that I needed a good number of potential S&P targets. 
>> After
>> I called a few and got told off for daring to call them when they were in
>> WAG, I realised that this was not going to work. Even HS0AC replied to 
>> me,
>> and spent longer explaining that he was in WAG than it would have taken 
>> to
>> work me !  But I got called by lots of Germans !
>>
>> So late morning I opted for packing in and going out for a long walk on
>> the hills !
>>
>> The clash of date means, I fear,  that this contest is going to have a
>> struggle to get momentum whilst all the big contesters are opting for 
>> WAG.
>>
>> But as far as I was able to test it, the SO2R box worked very well !
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Don, G3BJ
>>
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