[UK-CONTEST] Re :- RSGB 21/28MHz Contest

[tom wylie]

The FDM Factor

I have been reading this thread with interest as I used to be a member 
of the HFCC responsible for both the 7Mhz and the 21/28Mhz Contests.

The 7 Mhz has gone and the 21/28 has its coat on a shaky nail.   This
basically was the position when I left the Committee.

It is obvious that in the years of sunspot minimum that activity and 
support for the 21.28 will be minimal.   You can spend forever listening 
to white noise on an empty band.   That does not necessarily mean that 
there is no interest in the Contest, yet I echo what some others have 
said, in there there is a great hulabaloo when you threaten to ditch a 
contest, but come the next one, there is no consequent rise in activity 
levels.

It is disheartening for the Contest organiser/adjudicator to adjudicate 
the same entries year upon year, sometimes with a different winner at 
the top.

The RSGB seems to excell itself with running local contests like
AFS, ROPOCO Club Calls and the like, but apart from the IOTA Contest, 
there is not a single RSGB Contest, where stations can work the word 
from their home station., generating activity for awards.

IF it was decided that the 21/28 has to go, we have a prime contesting 
weekend going a-begging.    Following on the back of the success of 
IOTA, could it not be possible to instigate some form of DX Contest 
160-10m, us against the world sort of thing.    24 Hour, Mixed mode, 
single mode,
single op, multi op, QRP, this would just about cover all interests..... 
and bring back a little DX interest to RSGB Contests.


Tom

GM4FDM