[UK-CONTEST] The UK Activity Contests

Sat Dec 31 04:45:52 PST 2011

Reg,

Being in one of the IO83 locators, can I say that the activity up here is amazing, although intra IO83 contacts garner few points per km, the activity is welcome on otherwise dead bands.  The guys down in JO01 get the advantage of good km/contact from the continent that we rarely hear.  So what we gain by the M5 rule is to some extend balanced by the east coast sea path points.

The rules may not be level for everyone, I only get 300 km points for working GI4SNA, whereas David gets approx 300 km points for working each and every IO83 station.  So Dave can beat me hands down with only 30% of the contacts I make.  Dave also has the advantage that he can leave his beam in the same general direction all night.  To some extent the same applies to Andy GM4JR, beam wise that is, but both of them need substantial power to get us sasenachs to point their way.

Overall, let us run with these rules for a few years to see what then needs to be tweeked, that way the vagaries of good/poor conditions will even out.  Just imagine what rule changes would be made if we could work loads of Continental stations from IO83 every Tueday night?

HNY de Chris G8APB

> From: Regwoolley at aol.com
> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:05:36 -0500
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] The UK Activity Contests
> 
> 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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