[UK-CONTEST] The contest "exchange"....

[PETER CLEALL]

As I have only been a low level dabbler in contests for less than 12 months,
I hardly dare to comment.

I am in favour of retaining a 21/28 cw + SSB contest. I would have operated
SSB last weekend but for a long standing family reunion.

How about overseas ops working each of the RSGB regions for awards. UK
stations to compete for  individual and club awards to be given per region.

Perhaps the RSGB should have an award for working  each of their regions or
if a more internationally recognised system is needed could we use the first
4 digits of the QRA locator.


peter G8AFN



On 7 October 2010 13:01, Stewart GM4AFF <stewart at gm4aff.net> wrote:

> Yes Nigel. Good idea - to use Districts. Makes a lot of sense.
> (Not WAB squares, not grid squares, not Borough Councils, not Little Chef
> Car Parks, etc.!)
>
> 73
> Stewart
> GM4AFF
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Nigel G3TXF
> Sent: 06 October 2010 22:37
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] The contest "exchange"....
>
>
>
> Hello UK Contesters,
>
> The use of UK Districts as an exchange in various RSGB
> Contests (including the recent 21/28MHz) has always struck
> me as a bit of a waste of an opportunity. Why use as an
> "exchange" something which is NOT collected for any Award
> outside of the contest? In the Swiss H-26 Contest you
> receive Swiss Cantons. There's a nice award for working all
> 26 Cantons. In the French REF contests ditto. It's
> Departments, and there's a programme of awards for
> collecting French departments. The same goes for US States
> in the ARRL-Contest and for Oblasts in some Russian
> Contests. But in the UK, we use a contest exchange, which is
> not, as far as I know, connected with any well known
> operating award.
>
> There's no incentive for award chasers to take part in RSGB
> contests if the received "exchange" does not relate to any
> award and to anything "collectable".
>
> WAB Squares would probably be more useful/attractive in this
> respect than UK Districts. It's quite common for people to
> ask in HF QSOs (both in and out of contests) "what's your
> WAB OM?". But no-one has EVER asked me for my UK District.
> Why should they!
>
> 73 - Nigel G3TXF
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mike
> Pemberton
> Sent: 05 October 2010 21:07
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] RSGB 21 / 28MHz Contest 2010
>
> Hi all,
>
> well I did have a listen and had a few QSOs on 15m but
> nothing much seemed to be audible on my very simple
> antennas.
> It is a pity because I really used to like this contest.
>
> Unfortunately I am not sure the rest of the world wants to
> work UK and UK districts any more and maybe a 21/28 contest
> with more international appeal would help. Multipliers for
> UK districts and higher points for UK stations too perhaps
> (a la IOTA island stations) but with an all work all format
> may be more popular. The danger is all contests start to
> look alike. We lost the 7 MHz contests because the work G
> stations format (amongst other reasons). It would be a pity
> to lose another unique RSGB event by not moving with the
> times. I quite liked the "mixed or single mode" improvement
> of a few years ago but that obviously did not hit the spot
> and bring back big numbers of stations outside the UK.
>
> Please try to keep this event in the calendar even if we
> have to change the format a little to popularise it.
>
> Like many others with non-radio interests the prospect of
> almost dead 21/28 lost out to other activities again this
> year.
>
> Only my thoughts and I know this one has been around the
> buoy with the contest committee a few times.
>
> 73
>
> Mike G4DDL
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