[UK-CONTEST] ROPOCO-The furure

[Clive GM3POI]

Don, No chance of proper propagation here at 0700z. The sun 
had risen about 4 hours before the start.
    The HFCC do not appear to know about D layer absorption. 
Why this contest can't be put at say Sunday evening or any 
other day of the week and at a time in the year when the 
Holidays are over, and cannot comprehend. 73 Clive GM3POI
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Beattie" <g3ozf at btinternet.com>
To: "UK Contest Reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] ROPOCO-The furure


> 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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