[UK-CONTEST] The UK Activity Contests

Sat Dec 31 04:05:36 PST 2011

I am in the centre of England and struggle to make good points per QSO. So  
all those nice QSO's in io83 io92 are small beer for me. I must therefore 
try  and up my points by working some DX. So from here that's PA,DL etc. No 
system is  fair. But those that threw baby out of the bath water forget. Its 
A UK ACTIVITY  CONTEST! I do think, the playing field now is about as level 
as we can get in  terms of overall points.

I do however like some have mentioned  find the normalise score a bit  
strange. I have had debates with GM4JR over this very subject. Where some times  
our scores overall were very close. Yet one gets 1000 points the other 500. 
Then  next month one of us have a massive win one gets 1000 the other high 
800's. This  seems a pretty bizarre system. 

To all you who gave up. Then I say this you only fail when you do not try! 

Reg G8VHI 

In a message dated 31/12/2011 09:18:59 GMT Standard Time,  
john at carltonhouse.eclipse.co.uk writes:

Ray and  all

I agree it's been good to see activity in the UKAC increase this  year, even
though I have not been qrv myself, except very occasionally.  Nevertheless, 
I
have listened and observed on a number of Tuesday nights.  And I'm glad that
your tireless efforts to persuade the committee to change  the rules to an 
M5
multiplier were successful. By a remarkable co-incidence  it has enabled you
to achieve some regular top spots in the results  table.

However, as Bob G8HGN has pointed out, there has been a  down-side too. A
number of previously keen competitors in the SE of England  have voted with
their feet and no longer enter the UKAC. It's ironic that  you can now see
comments posted along the lines of "worked no-one in 01 or  02 last night".

I find the M5 multiplier to be insular and introverted.  It plainly
discourages us from looking further afield, and instead  encourages intense
areas of activity such as we now see in  IO83.

Unfortunately, the Tuesday night increase in activity has not  been
transferred to other contests, at least, not yet. I rather think that  this
is because longer contests, such as the Trophies, fall into the  "too
difficult" category.

Ah well, Happy New Year to all, including  the Committee, who have the
thankless task of trying to please almost  everyone almost all the time !

Regards

John  G4ZTR

-----Original Message-----
From:  uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]  On Behalf Of Ray James
Sent: 29 December 2011 01:15
To: UK  Contesting
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] The UK Activity Contests

Hi  all,

Here we are approaching the end of year and the final UKAC under  the new
rules and M5 multiplier of 2011 has taken place.
I would like to  thank Ed GW3SQX and his contest committee for taking on
board what myself  and others interested in fostering total UK participation
in VHF, UHF and  Microwave UKAC contesting had suggested.
Not only did he listen but took  action and the results speak for themselves
with the ever increasing  numbers participating from 6m through to 10 GHz 
and
equally as important,  from a wide UK geographical spread.
It has been a great year for UKAC  participation and appreciation must also
be expressed to Richard G4WFR, Ian  G0FCT, Roger G4BVY and Bob G0KYS for all
their prompt adjudicating and  tabulation of results.
Thank you.

And a very Happy New Year (when it  comes) to everyone on this reflector.

73 Ray  GM4CXM
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