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

[Nigel G3TXF]

Hello David,

Now this IS radical thinking. I like it, but I guess others
may not - hi! 

It'd be a real Sprint doing three consecutive 30 minute
mini-contests on three different modes (glad you didn't
mention PSK though!). Let's have eight (or even sixteen!) of
these new style super-Sprints over four months.

73 - Nigel G3TXF 


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
David
Sent: 01 December 2011 12:25
To: UK-Contest at contesting.com
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Changes to the CC and the Sprint for
2012.

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
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
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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