[UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 43, Issue 41

[Steve White]

My conscience tells me that we (the UK, that is, not just the subscribers to
this reflector) should indeed have special stations to mark the olympics in
2012, but my gut reaction is to think that it will cause umpteen vitriolic
messages to be sent by those who beleive they have been done out of
something.

Steve, G3ZVW

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> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:49:01 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Daniel Schlieper <daniel.schlieper at tuxomania.net>
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] football stations
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
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> Apropos the D*2006* stations: Yesterday was their last day. One of them
> mentioned on the air to have 27000 qsos in the log. Together, about
> 850000. I am impressed by the scale of organization: imagine, 36 special
> event stations on the air... Maybe most of the operators were at home
> enjoying their arm-chair special event station ;-)
>
> Anyhow, that award seemed to have worked very well. I heard so many DX
> stations calling CQ DL. And for 5 or 10 EUR for the award, there should be
> some money on the way into the DARC treasure chest.
>
> For the operators, this was an enormous training for contesting, at least
> they were on the hot end of the pile-up most of the time. They even had an
> internal contest.
>
> I wonder if we (UK contesters/RSGB) could run a similar event during the
> olympics to come? If so, we should get started now.
>
> 73 Daniel M0ERA, Oxted, Surrey
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