[UK-CONTEST] Eu Sprint - Apology

[Lee Volante]

Clive,

Understood exactly - it also reminds me of what I was saying in the CDXC 
Digest recently. The Market Forces seem to always favour "everyone works 
everyone events", and I'll now add in a sub-clause of "sitting on the same 
frequency pressing F1, maybe watching the DX Cluster."

To me, the real downside is the potential loss of events with a unique 
flavour e.g. the Sprint (maybe BERU in the future?) when they clash with 
other contests.  Whilst some "everyone works single country / region" events 
may not be everyone's cup of tea, they're certainly favoured by some who 
don't like the QRM of CQ WW type activity.  We should be able to maintain 
some of these types of events to keep a sound balance.  We can vote with our 
feet and support the events we want to, but that won't be enough to 
counteract the masses and the casual operators "accidentally" supporting the 
'work everyone' type event.

Lee G0MTN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clive Whelan" <clive.whelan at btinternet.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Eu Sprint - Apology


> Lee
>
> That exemplifies the "market forces" point I think. If the
> SPs want to restrict QSOs in the way they do, then clearly
> activity will be less than it otherwise would be. That is
> their choice, and if they suffer QRM from another event,
> they could modify their behaviour.