[UK-CONTEST] RSGB HFCC CONTESTS

[Darrell G0HVQ]

I think Andy makes a good point - there are quite a few of us who work all 
week and only have the weekend to fit in family / household jobs / hobbies 
(in that order, just in case my XYL is reading this!). It's one of the 
reasons I started doing the monthly 2m Activity Contests, absolutely perfect 
start time (8pm, kids are in bed) and a nice duration (2.5 hours).

The 24/48hr contests have their place and are enjoyable, but how about 
something in the weekday evenings? Maybe the odd 40m event in the winter, 
20/15/10 in the summer?

73
Darrell G0HVQ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Hewitt" <andyphewitt at btopenworld.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] RSGB HFCC CONTESTS


>
>
> I don't want to get embroiled in the CW Skimmer debate as now that it has
> been invented, just like the THE BOMB, it cannot be uninvented and is 
> bound
> to be developed further and it will soon be a matter for contest 
> organisers
> to arrange the rules so that we can live with it. In our local club 
> Newbury
> and District we have at least one member who cannot read or send Morse but
> is participating in the HFCC cw contests and getting us some points with
> Skimmer. However my reason for writing was the question that was asked 
> "have
> these contests outlived their usefulness?".
>
> It depend what the reason was, certainly they have generated more interest
> in contesting and encouraged some to learn or improve their cw ability. I
> don't think they would be as successful if they were run on weekends. Most
> weekends have other international contests running anyhow and as for me I
> can almost always get away for 90minutes on one evening per week. At
> weekends mostly I have some family commitment or other to attend to.
>
> I would like to see this idea developed further and perhaps, as the solar
> cycle advances be applied to the higher frequency bands. Could we not have
> less 80m events (to keep the DLs and SSTVers happy!) and have, say, one a
> month on one different mode per month on 20/15/10? With basically the same
> rules and power levels. Perhaps also limiting us to wire antennas?
>
> I throw this into the ring to be discounted, discussed or whatever.
> 73
> Andy G3SVD
>
>
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