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

[dave g3klh]

Personally, I shall be very unhappy if the January Club Contests are 
scrapped as conditions are usually interesting at that time of year

Regarding the Sprint format, David's idea is a great one
However I am not sure about the rigid 30 minute slots - would prefer a 
straightforward 90 minute multimode contest allowing entrants to change mode 
when they wish

Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David" <g3yyd at btinternet.com>
To: >
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 12:24 PM
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.
>
> _______________________________________________
> UK-Contest mailing list
> UK-Contest at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/uk-contest
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> UK-Contest mailing list
> UK-Contest at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/uk-contest
>
> _______________________________________________
> UK-Contest mailing list
> UK-Contest at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/uk-contest