[UK-CONTEST] Eu Sprint - Apology

[G3SXW]

Lee,
The Russian DX Contest has really exploded in recent years:
Number of logs submitted to this contest:
2006 - 2682
2005 - 2435
2004 - 1898
2003 - 1563
2002 - 1271
2001 - 1187
2000 - 830
1999 - 658
1998 - 595
1997 - 397
73 de Roger/G3SXW.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Volante" <lee at g0mtn.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "UK Contest Reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Eu Sprint - Apology


> Clive,
>
> We need to be careful with calendars....  I think the first full weekend 
> of
> April would be the SP DX contest (SSB / CW) which might some problems on
> most years.  This year, because April 1 was a Sunday, SP DX was on 8 / 9
> April, and so itself was then coincident with the Yuri Gagarin contest.
> When I operated the SP activity was losing... A similar trend!  Maybe the
> moral of the story is to enter the contests popular with Russians, but 
> then
> we're being dragged along by those market forces against our will.
>
> Today's Sprint was a struggle for sure.  And I missed the JA's too !
>
> Lee G0MTN
>
>
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