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

[Steve GW4BLE]

Excellent idea David, count me in!


Steve
GW4BLE

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On 1 Dec 2011, at 16:19, Nigel G3TXF <nigel at G3TXF.com> wrote:

> 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-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [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-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [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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