[UK-CONTEST] Proposed change to UK Activity Contest

[Keith Maton]

On 20 Oct 2009, at 16:02, Ron Price wrote:

>
>> An early start like that is too early for our group, some of us  
>> work a
>> distance away from our site and if the contest starts at 7pm then
>> there quite simply isn't enough time to get home from work and get to
>> site for the start.
>>
>> I'd go with 7:30pm but 7pm is just too early.
>>
>> 73
>> Keith, G6NHU
>
> You could argue that in a typical 2.5 hour activity contest if you  
> lost the
> first half hour you would probably still make the same number of  
> contacts
> :-)
>
> Ron,GW4EVX
>


I agree to a point, the first half hour is usually the busiest (at  
least it is for us) so perhaps the small percentage of portable  
stations can pack up half an hour early and go home anyway :-)

73
Keith