[UK-CONTEST] 21/28mhz RSGB Contest

[nubsey]

Not sure how much dfference it made, but it was the FOC dinner and, also the 
EU Sprint that weekend.
Nubsey G0VDZ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tim.trew at btinternet.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 21/28mhz RSGB Contest


> Brian 5B4AIZ wrote:
>>Bad cndx or not Uk support was dreadful, maybe it's time this contest was 
>>ditched.
>>If you are promoting an event and show no enthusiasm for it is it any 
>>wonder it
>>creates no interest abroad?
>
> I agree that something should be done, but if we ditched all of the 
> specialist contests that had low support, there may not be many left. We 
> need to find a way of making them more popular.
>
> I believe:
> 1. That it is particularly important to have this contest at this point in 
> the solar cycle to encourage people to use the band. I had hardly worked 
> 21MHz in years and was surprised what I worked - around the peak, people 
> will use it naturally.
> 2. Most of the CW stations were pretty weak with me, so I'm not sure that 
> I could have had any SSB QSOs
> 3. The contest currently needs many UK stations to be calling CQ to 
> generate activity.
> 4. I assume that there are a lot of people like me whose CW skills aren't 
> (yet!) up to the 25-30WPM needed to be able to make CQ calls (where an 
> instant response is needed to the stations that reply), but who can piece 
> together a callsign eventually from someone else calling CQ, and so depend 
> on others calling CQ (I don't wish to debate on the merits of this 
> situation, and I find that working in CW contests is a big motivator for 
> improving myself).
>
> Given the above, and looking at how other contests address this:
> - Some, like the Scandinavian AC, increase the geographic range (beyond a 
> single country) that can be worked by others
> - Some, like the YO DX HF Contest 
> (http://www.yodx.ro/en/hf-contest/rules), allows any station to work any 
> other, but gives a huge advantage to working stations from the organising 
> country through more points/QSO and country-specific multipliers.
>
> Since it's not obvious what large grouping we would pick, without turning 
> it into another WAE contest, the second style seems a good way forward. 
> The YO contest attracted huge support, and this is all the more important 
> on the higher bands at this point in the solar cycle.
>
> Are there any disadvantages to this proposal that I have overlooked?
>
> 73, Tim, G8JXV
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