[UK-CONTEST] Commonwealth Contest 2010

[Colin]

I agree the 12 hour section should stay.   With my antenna restrictions 
I don't expect to be highly placed but I do try and apply some tactics 
to the contest and choose the most likely best 12 hours.   Sometimes it 
doesn't work as I missed the Sunday morning 10 metre opening - but you 
win some and lose some.

73

Colin, G3PSM

On 16/03/2010 16:48, Andy P Hewitt wrote:
> Hear Hear
> Andy G3SVD
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rob - G4LMW
> Sent: 16 March 2010 12:11
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Commonwealth Contest 2010
>
> Clive
>
> The 12-hour section exists (so far as I am concerned) because some of us
> have a life outside of the shack.
>
> What I really need is a "sneak off for 10 minutes here-and-there" section
>
> 73, Rob
> G4LMW
> http://www.G4LMW.co.uk
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clive GM3POI"<gm3poi2 at btinternet.com>
> To: "Dave Sergeant"<dave at davesergeant.com>;<uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Commonwealth Contest 2010
>
>
>    
>> I agree with Dave's Comments. I have always wondered
>> why there is a 12 hour section, when other Major
>> contests do not ( expect RSGB) is it a British lowest
>> common denominator thing. It does then become a
>> lottery who manages to work the part timers, and
>> dependant on part timers choosing the correct times
>> to operate
>> for propagation.  73 Clive GM3POI
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dave Sergeant"<dave at davesergeant.com>
>> To:<uk-contest at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 9:28 AM
>> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Commonwealth Contest 2010
>>
>>
>>      
>>> On 16 Mar 2010 at 9:05, cris at gm4fam.plus.com wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> With contacts now possible on 5 bands from these
>>>> Northern climes
>>>> choosing operating times in the 12 hour section
>>>> has become almost
>>>> impossibly difficult for score optimisation, so
>>>> will do 24 hours next
>>>> year
>>>>          
>>> It is perhaps questionable whether the 12 hour
>>> sections can really be
>>> justified in this sort of contest. I set out
>>> intending to do 12 hours
>>> in a not very serious entry with no overnight
>>> operating, but when I had
>>> finished I found I had actually done 14 hours. And
>>> that was with some
>>> hours, especially on Saturday morning, only having
>>> one or two QSOs. So
>>> I entered 24 hours (restricted). I thought I might
>>> have qualified for
>>> the QRP certificate (which I see I won last year,
>>> but don't seem to
>>> have actually received the bit of paper...) but it
>>> seems from posts on
>>> GQRP there are some who exceeded my 71 QSOs.
>>>
>>> An enjoyable contest, just as the chance to work
>>> some rarer stuff
>>> without the EU competition, but never one where I
>>> would get anywhere
>>> near winning so I guess it doesn't really matter
>>> what column I appear
>>> in.
>>>
>>> 73 Dave G3YMC
>>>
>>> http://www.davesergeant.com
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