[UK-CONTEST] ROPOCO2 - G3BJ

[Roger G3SXW]

RoPoCo was one of my favourite contest long ago but the slow QSO rate (eg 60 
in two hours) made it really boring. My theory is that the same (similar) 
number of contesters are entering contests these days but easily managing 
faster QSO rates by using better modern rigs and with snappier operating so 
they finish working everyone on the band and then just twiddle their thumbs 
for the last 30-60 minutes. Hence many contests could be shorter and I'm 
pleased to hear that RoPoCo will come down from 120 to 90 minutes. This 
could have happened years ago.
73 de Roger/G3SXW.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim G3RTE" <jkellaway at btinternet.com>
To: "Uk-Contest at Contesting.Com" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] ROPOCO2 - G3BJ


> It has been many years since I entered this contest.  Wonder why I have
> given it a miss for so long.  As Don said it was pretty slow going and 54
> qsos in the log. Some pretty strange codes going around.
>
> Great shame we still don't hear these keen young contest operators which 
> are
> supposed to exist. Maybe they can't handle the complexity of the post code
> or are only interested in the big contests when they can operate from
> locations with big aerial systems and high run rates. This also applies to
> the 80m CC and AFS.
>
> 73 Jim G6AY (aka G3RTE)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don Beattie" <g3ozf at btinternet.com>
> To: "Uk-Contest at Contesting.Com" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:24 AM
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] ROPOCO2 - G3BJ
>
>
>>I found it rather slow here - everyone else seemed to be busy, but the 
>>rate
>>here was poor - only 59 in two hours.
>>
>> Some big signals, so presumably propagation was Ok for inter-G, but I 
>> just
>> could not get a run going. Spent quite a bit of time S&P, but even that
>> produced limited results.
>>
>> It will be interesting to see what the 90 minute format for 2010 does for
>> this contest.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Don, G3BJ
>>
>>
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