[UK-CONTEST] Eu Sprint - Apology

[Dave Sergeant]

On 14 Apr 2007 at 20:01, Dave Lawley wrote:

> Well, guess what? The Russians have gone and moved their damned WSEM
> contest a week early - it started an hour into the CW sprint today,
> and has totally trashed it. Complete waste of time.

Firstly I didn't try at all in the sprint. Although an interesting 
idea I can never be competitive in this event on QRP where I have to 
do search and pounce. But I may be wrong, having never tried it. One 
feature of these 'minority' contests I like is for band slot chasing, 
and in this one you only have one shot of calling a station before he 
QSYs!

Anyway, coming back to the melee last night, and I was listening (in 
between QSYing between 30m, 17m and 500kHz to get away from it...). 
The WSEM contests are a particular instance of a domestic contest 
which takes over large parts of the bands, appears from nowhere, and 
is a restricted contest in that us non Russians cannot join in. There 
are of course other contests like this, for instance the PACC contest 
where you can only work PA's but have no propagation to there on 20m 
and above and just hear the rest of Europe....

WSEM is problematic in that they don't publish their rules in English 
and don't publicise their events in the mainstream contest calendars. 
I did find their site once, and Google offered a rather amusing (and 
not very helpful) translation. We really need to talk to the 
organisers via our Russian friends and discuss the situation and get 
them to fit in with other activities going on on the bands. It is not 
just contesters who get upset, for instance at the moment there are 
several DXpeditions going on and they have to fit in with everybody 
else. And there are those who can't have their Saturday evening chat 
with Joe down the road....

Any Russian speakers among us??

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com