[UK-CONTEST] ROPOCO-The furure

[Clive Whelan]

Well I can tell you Don that just like in AFS, those away from the 
centres of population are severely handicapped anyway  i.e. NVIS 
syndrome.  Ask any GW who has tried that event or ROPOCO from Swamsea or 
e.g. Pembs.: anyway with a Butternut I am ONLY a good signal in GM!

 There will always be winners and losers, but the current format is a 
lose-lose situation. Actually I suspect the real reason for the ungodly 
hour is to avoid upsetting the anti-contest faction. Do they actually 
have an 80m chapter any more?

73

Clive
GW3NJW

Don Beattie wrote:
> 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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