[UK-CONTEST] 80M Clubs contest series and Northern Ops

[Dave Sergeant]

On 1 Jul 2006 at 13:25, Alex GM3ZBE wrote:

> In this year's 80M club contests series the timing was changed when
> BST started, such that the contests were started 1 hour earlier.  I
> would be interested to hear what other GM and possibly other Northerly
> contesters think of the change.  Personally I feel that this has
> spoilt this contest for me due to the practically non-existent GM to G
> propagation, I doubt I will enter next year as I have better things to
> do with my "radio" time than spend one and a half hours a week to work
> 20 or 30 stations, once summer-time kicks in.

Well it was rather interesting that last month I did not hear any GMs 
never mind work one. So you may have a point. But I certainly prefer 
the new times without the 10.30 finish. On Monday one of our club 
members (Steve GW4ALG) is on holiday in GM land and hoping to get on, 
it will be interesting how he does. And that is another rub for 
encouraging geographically distributed clubs in CC and not imposing 
the AFS distance rule - as a club our country members work very well 
as a team effort and it generates a lot of interest each month (we 
have a potential new member in the Hebrides and even one in Japan!).

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com