[UK-CONTEST] NATIONAL VHF CONTEST

[DAVID BUTLER]

Peter,

But activity has moved on - actually considerably dropped off - since those 2M UK Cumulatives were stopped.

We now need a 'national' contest to encourage low power newcomers and others to participate in vhf contesting.

Maintain the 2M UKAC   and  have a series of of 144MHz (& higher) National Contests.

73 David G4ASR
VHF Manager, RSGB  




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From: Peter Bowyer <peter at bowyer.org>
To: "uk-contest at contesting.com" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, 8 May, 2009 10:09:25 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Domineering VHF Contest Stations

That'll be the 2m UK Cumulatives, which I wrote the rules for prior to
their introduction in 1999-ish. They featured 3 points per UK contact,
1 point per non-UK contact, with postcode multipliers (hence no mults
for non-UK contacts).

They ran for 2 or 3 years, suffered from severe lack of support, and
were superceded by the 2m UKACs which were timed to overlap with the
NAC and other European events to capitalise on the activity already
present in near-Eu.

You can't win 'em all, clearly.

Peter G4MJS