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

[geoff plucknett]

>From my perspective I'm not sure that its the sprint format that's the
problem, but the simple fact that by August a lot of folks are all
"contested out" after (pause for breath) 3* CQWW, Club Calls, 28MHz, 4*AFS,
21 legs of Club Champs, potentially 72 legs of VHF/UHF/SHF UKAC, BERU, NFD,
IOTA and SSB FD just around the corner. Coming home to yet another evening
contest wears a bit thin by August. Need to cut the grass or go for a walk!

Geoff G4FKA

On 7 April 2011 14:41, Nigel G3TXF <nigel at g3txf.com> wrote:

> 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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