[UK-CONTEST] How to liven up our 80m Sprints?

[Peter Hobbs]

I suggest that Nigel has it just right!  Allowing for summer leave, 
August isn't far off to get any consideration of rule changes.  Note 
also that the LZ Open series of short contests also allow repeat QSOs 
(every 30 minutes) and are already supported by SD.  At present, 
activity levels in the RSGB sprints are unsustainable.

73, Peter G3LET

dave at g4buo.com wrote:

>You're a bit previous Nigel, the RSGB 80m Club Sprints don't start until
>August!
>
>By contrast, the Spring pair of European Sprint contests take place over
>the next two weekends, and G results in these contests now count towards
>the RSGB HF Contest Championship.
>
>The CW sprint takes place this coming Saturday 9th April, and the Phone
>sprint is on 16th. Both are 4-hour contests on 20, 40 and 80m. Activity
>tends to start on 20m, the middle two hours are mainly 40m and the last
>hour is on 80m. Contest time is 1600-1959UTC and the exchange and QSY
>rules are very similar to the RSGB ones.
>
>Please see www.eu-sprint.com for full information.
>
>73, Dave G4BUO
>
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>>Hello UK Contesters (and any Contest Committee members who
>>may read this!)
>>
>>We're now well into the 80m CC season [the 80m CCs are a
>>great success all round], and later in the year there will
>>be the 80m Sprints. These are "Sprints" in name only. In
>>practice there's not enough volume of activity to make them
>>into a real frequency-hopping frenzied "Sprint".
>>
>>As many may have noticed there is a series of Russian WSEM
>>Mini-Contests on 80m CW on Wednesday evenings. They run for
>>just one hour, but the interesting feature is that you are
>>allowed to work the same station within each of the six
>>ten-minute sessions. Even though there is only a relatively
>>small number of participants, these Russian Mini-Contests
>>are really hectic. They feel much more like a "sprint", than
>>our own frequency-hopping Sprints do.
>>
>>My suggestion for the up-coming series of RSGB 80m Sprints
>>is that the rules allow the same station to be worked in
>>each of, say, three 30-minute sessions. Yes, I know, the
>>logging software would need to be modified, but being able
>>to work the same station in each of the three periods, would
>>certainly liven up the 80m Sprints, which in their present
>>form [because of low activity] are just a bit dull!
>>
>>73 - Nigel G3TXF
>>
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