[UK-CONTEST] 4m/6m contest in Es season

[John Wilson]

Hi Malcolm,
I've only just realised that PW have moved their 2m contest to June and 
introduced a 4m contest which as you say makes a lot of sense and gives 
a good weekend.  I'm not sure I agree about the difficulty of one 
operator running two bands.  I'm sure there would be a single operator 
category for such a contest so everyone would have the same issues and 
operator skill would become a bigger factor in the result.  Also with 
equipment almost all HF transceivers have 6m these days so I wouldn't 
have thought it would be too difficult to put on a joint station.

73 John G3UUT

G0MIC at aol.com wrote:
> I would like to add my personal pennyworth to this as an organiser of a  
> contest team.  
>  
> Firstly more contests for 4 metres in the E's season would be welcome and  
> the PW Low Power contest on 13th  June is a welcome addition to the  
> calendar.
>  
> However I do not want these to run concurrently with 6 metres for the  
> following reasons
>  
> We do not have a large contingent of members to assemble and operate the  
> stations.  For VHF Field Day we can muster enough people to set  up 2  or 3 
> stations. Our problem is finding enough capable and  keen operators to man 
> them and are able, normally to be able to guarantee 2  stations over the 
> weekend.  Our choice comes down to 2 metres for 24 hours  plus 4 metres and 6 
> metres on alternate days.  If the 4 and 6 were moved  together we would loose 
> one station due to lack of operators rather than  shortage of equipment.
>  
> The PW 4 metre contest is on the Saturday and their 144 MHz contest is on  
> the Sunday which suits us fine as we only set up one station with a change 
> of  antennas overnight and we will have enough good operators to give us a 
> fighting  chance of having some success.
>  
> I am also conscious that a lot of support comes from solo fixed stations  
> who come on to give away points and get themselves some good squares or DX 
> and I  suspect that we would split this support between the two bands rather 
> than get  it for both as these people tend to have limited operating time or  
> resources.
>  
> Regards
>  
> Malcolm
> G)MIC
>  
>  
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