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

[Michael Ruttenberg]

This would be interesting for people with rubber clocks. People will have moved to the next mode while others will still be in the previous one.

Mike
G7TWC

On 1 Dec 2011, at 16:33, Steve GW4BLE <steve.gw4ble at btconnect.com> wrote:

> Excellent idea David, count me in!
> 
> 
> Steve
> GW4BLE
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> Sent from my iPhone 4S
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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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