[UK-CONTEST] Changes to the CC and the Sprint for 2012.

[David]

I personally do not like the sprint format. 

However if things are slow in this contest why not make the contest a
multimode contest each evening? 30 minutes CW, 30 minutes SSB and 30 minutes
RTTY. Each station can be worked again on a different mode. If the
adjudication can be done by computer then results could be collated as all
mode and single mode sections enabling 30 minute single mode entries as well
as all mode 90 minute entries. 

73 David


Nigel G3TXF wrote
However with the Sprints there needs to be something more radical to make
them zing. Just reducing the frequency of the event doesn't do anything for
improving the format. At present the format is not worthy of the name
"sprint". Two possible ways to "speed things up" would be either (a) to
allow repeat QSOs every thirty minutes during a ninety minute contest or (b)
reduce the length to sixty minutes. Or some combination of both. The Russian
WSEM contests are just sixty minutes long and you are allowed to work the
same station in six ten-minutes sections. The WSEM contests have more to do
with operating skill and "sprinting" than do our presently somewhat tame 80m
events.

Let's have some new thinking on how to add a greater skill/speedy-operating
dimension to these Sprints (on both SSB and CW).

73 - 




-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Robert
Sent: 30 November 2011 21:59
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Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Changes to the CC and the Sprint for 2012.



The proposed start date for the CC 2011 is February, comments please.

As for the Sprints, ONE contest per month. That's only two SSB and two CW
contests over four months, hardly a contest .
Comments please.

Robert. M0JRB/G8BUN.

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