[UK-CONTEST] 144 UK AC

[G3VDB (Jim)]

Sorry - this is a test reply to see if it works the way I think it does!

G3VDB

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Les Allwood
Sent: 07 January 2009 15:06
To: UK Contest
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 144 UK AC


> Did I miss something here, 
YES

> do the new rules allow for spotting on a  DxCluster?
YES

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ferrington, M0XDF" <M0XDF at Alphadene.co.uk>
To: <gm4cxm at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: <uk-contest at contesting.com>; "Jiri Culak" <jiriculak at aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 144 UK AC


> Did I miss something here, do the new rules allow for spotting on a  
> DxCluster?
> -- 
> Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them,  
> and
> pretty soon you have a dozen.
> --John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)
> 
> On 7 Jan 2009, at 14:50, Ray James wrote:
> 
>>
>> Happy 2009 to one and all.
>>
>> Having finished work on the new H-frame mounted 2m/70cm system I  
>> thought it would be a good opportunity to see how different the  
>> Contest Committee's new rules for 2009 would impact the first event  
>> of the year.
>>
>> I was present for the full duration to give points/multipliers away.
>> As the health of weak signal use of the UK VHF and above spectrum  
>> has been a concern, also how our contest rules encourage or dis- 
>> courage support, I opted to experiment on this occasion.
>> The antennas never looked to the south east for the first hour as I  
>> used this time to establish what support could be found in GM and  
>> GI. EI would also have been a beneficiary of my beaming at EI.
>>
>> The overall result was 14 GM's worked, 1 gotaway and two other known  
>> to be active but not heard. One of the latter was GM0HTT in Orkney.  
>> The furthest north I worked was Stirlingshire, nothing from the east  
>> coast centres of activity from Edinburgh through to Aberdeen.
>> Despite lots of CQ's towards GI/EI....zilch, though I gathered after  
>> the event that at least one station was on from each country.
>> The remainder of the event was spent either listening across the  
>> band to white noise, interspersed with a few local operators and any  
>> G/GW who was calling up country and one PA0 just as he turned his  
>> antenna and was heard no more! Running produced a fair number of  
>> contacts down into JO01, IO91 and IO81 with a sprinkling of contacts  
>> to be found in the midlands and north of England/Wales. A local  
>> "spotted" me in the last half hour and that had an expected result!  
>> It was also interesting to note how no G's were spotting other G's,  
>> only EU's were spotting G's. I spotted a few locals who I know would  
>> be entering but this whole cluster/KST position must be raising  
>> quite a few wry smiles and head shaking over the channel!
>>
>> Have the Contest Committee's new UKAC rules helped?
>> Have the CC inspired UKAC activity from all over the UK?
>> Are the CC putting UK VHF+ interests first?
>>
>> On the basis of last night's event, not in the slightest.
> 
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