[UK-CONTEST] RDXC Russian Contest 18/19th March

[Gerard Lynch]

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From: <m0blf at domsmith.co.uk>
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Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] RDXC Russian Contest 18/19th March


> Hi all,
>
>> Interesting. Two things stand out John :
>> - Majority of the ops are young, well, under 40 then
>
> I too have wondered why young ops tend to like RDXC so much, and so I sent 
> out an email
> on the WWYC reflector last night to find out why.  Only two WWYCers 
> replied, but the
> reasons they gave were roughly what I guessed they might be.  In no 
> particular order:

I'd also add:

* In Europe, you can rack up a decent score just from working other EUs/UA9s 
and you can therefore run to good effect with a modest signal in a way you 
can't in the biggies where you need to be loud in the US;
* With by far the highest level of activity for a 24 hour contest, and a 
possible 10-12 (can't remember) band slots to fill per station, rates are 
high and if you have a decent signal consistently very high - I think one of 
the Russian multi-singles averaged close to 200/hour over the length of the 
contest last year;
* 'There are nearly always good conditions for this contest' - it's right on 
the equinox;
* There are usually a number of Russian DXpeditions somewhere interesting 
for new ones/band slots;
* I, in a very unscientific way, remember instant rate in this contest in a 
way I don't ever remember from doing IOTA from home, either from here or GI, 
despite my exalted 15-pointer status in IOTA.  That means you can rack up a 
half-way respectable score in a few hours.  And IOTA is a very similar (and 
generally excellent) contest in many ways.

And despite that, I won't be on for it this year as I'll be away that 
weekend, and it comes irritatingly the week after BERU which tends to use up 
a lot of my decadent radio time for March.

73

Gerry G0RTN
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