[UK-CONTEST] ROPOCO-The furure

[Don Beattie]

Just one comment, Clive

I seem to remember that the reason for the "unsocial hour" was to allow the 
northern GMs to have a chance at any propagation.

So I guess the answer might be to move it to an evening (like the CCs)

73

Don, G3BJ



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clive Whelan" <clive.whelan at btinternet.com>
To: "UK Contest Reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 10:27 AM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] ROPOCO-The furure


> If this sounds like a whinge, let me start by saying that ROPOCO is the
> finest ( short) contest in the RSGB calendar, and it's a tragedy that
> it's dying on its feet.
>
> To me, the proposed solutions aired here seem like death by a thousand
> cuts. Surely any contest which cannot support  a duration of a couple of
> hours, doesn't deserve to survive? Sure it's a challenging format, and
> places great demands on the CW copying ability of the operator. Actually
> that doesn't challenge me personally, but stiff fingers and the short
> term memory span of a goldfish tend to militate against logging
> accuracy. So what, nobody said it was going to be a stroll in the park,
> and all the better for that.
>
> I had fully intended to be on for ROPOCO2, but a domestic exigency ( a
> sick dog) meant that my head didn't hit the pillow until after 02:00
> BST, so by the time I had risen, abluted, and consumed an appropriate
> amount of caffeine rich beverage, it was almost stumps in ROPOCO2.
> Succinctly, ROPOCO will never prosper while it is scheduled at such an
> unsocial hour on the seventh day. HFCC, move it to a more appropriate
> time slot or lose yet another event ( cf 7Mhz DX et al.)
>
>
> 73
>
>
> Clive
> GW3NJW
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