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

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Yes please on a RSGBWW

However, as you say, in low sunspot part of cycle, people don't bother with some contests, so warning you're going to scrape them and then being surprised when activity doesn't pick up (because the SS activity is still poor) doesn't mean people aren’t going to be interested when things do improve - y which time it's too late!

Perhaps a contest for low SS activity, which swaps place with one for hight activity and this cycle follows that of the sun?

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73 de M0XDF

On 12 Nov 2010, at 16:01, tom wylie wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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