[UK-CONTEST] GB5HQ

[Bob Henderson]

Peter

I'm sure your intentions were good though, as you acknowledge, your timing 
was less than ideal.  Had you popped into the French dressing room last 
night and used the same tactics, I suspect you would have emerged seperate 
from your limbs or at the very least, having endured a head butt to your 
chest. ;-)

For the record, I don't share your opinion on criteria for assessment of 
real-time performance: You said, " The main real-time criterion for 
assessing a front-line station is how quick and easy it is to find and work 
compared with its competitors.  Stations that score well in this department 
tend to win contests."

The criteria for assessment of real-time performance of any contest station 
is rate of score accumulation.  (Note, I do not say QSO rate.)  This is 
frequently at odds with being easy to find.  Two examples, which well 
illustrate this are as follows:

It's hard to be visible/accessible when you are S&P for multipliers

If the pile-up is so large/intense that your rate is suffering as a 
consequence, it makes sense to move, reducing your visibility, hence 
reducing pile-up size to facilitate improvement in rate.

73

Bob, 5B4AGN


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Hobbs" <peter at tilgate.co.uk>
To: "UK Contest reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 11:18 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] GB5HQ


> Well, my apologies for stirring up such a hornets nest among the HQ 
> participants.  Perhaps this was inevitable given the timing of my post, 
> which should of course have been input a little later, to concide with a 
> considered post mortem.  I guess this was pretty inexcusable.  I certainly 
> had (have) no wish to denigrate the effort and investment put in by all 
> those concerned  with GB5HQ, rather to highlight a few points which were 
> self-evident to an uninvolved observer (and which have been largely 
> confirmed, by the way, in several of the subsequent postings).
>
> By way of excuse, or rather, reason behind it - at work, we invariably 
> debrief the customer after a big tender has gone in and pass their 
> comments on the bid to our proposal team in short order, with a view to 
> identifying opportunities for improvement.  In this case, away from home, 
> with time on my hands and setting out to work GB5HQ on the 12 band slots, 
> I was one of GB5HQ's customers (Chris, you'll identify with this 
> concept!).  The main real-time criterion for assessing a front-line 
> station is how quick and easy it is to find and work compared with its 
> competitors.  Stations that score well in this department tend to win 
> contests.  ANY suggestion that might assist in that aim, even if 
> unpalatable, should be at least considered.  Dave, perfectly reasonably, 
> has requested constructive detail off-list.
>
> Regards (and thanks for the GB5HQ QSOs!)
>
> Peter G3LET
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