[UK-CONTEST] 80m CCs : An ideal opportunity to drop PSK ... for good!

[Andy Hewitt]

I agree with ALL you say Chris. 

As ex-chairman of the Newbury club we strove hard to win every year since the 80m CCs started and were always the bridesmaid and never the bride. We are medium sized club but with the normal run of LOCAL members. Whilst we do have half a dozen or so dedicated contesters we found it impossible to beat Contest Groups where the majority of members are dedicated to contesting and can often be scattered over a wide area and able to take advantage of propagation changes which affect, in particular, the first couple of months of these contests.
73
Andy G3SVD

--- On Sun, 24/7/11, Christopher Plummer <plummerc42 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Christopher Plummer <plummerc42 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 80m CCs : An ideal opportunity to drop PSK ... for good!
> To: microwaves at blueyonder.co.uk, uk-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Sunday, 24 July, 2011, 18:48
> 
> 80 CC contesters,
>  
> There have been two suggestions recently on the reflector
> that I should comment on :-
>  
> The use of PSK31 in the 80m CC Data series:-  I agree
> with Phil et al. that PSK31 is a useful data mode with low
> power and low band width requirements, BUT it is NOT a
> contest mode (and neither is BPSK63) and should thus the 80m
> CC data events should revert to 45.45Baud RTTY only.  I
> say this as an avid Data mode operator, within and outside
> of contests.  PSK31 is a recognised data mode and has
> its avid users, but my own personal opinion (and not as
> BARTG Awards Manager) it should be dropped from the 80m CC
> events.
>  
> Secondly, the spread of 'Club' contestants over broad
> areas:- Surely a local club consists mainly of LOCAL members
> with a few who are more distant, but when it comes to CLUB
> contests there should be a distance limit for club members
> to contribute to scoring, so the 80m CC events should
> include say a 25km from the normal club meeting place as
> qualification, similar to AFS.  This way contributions
> from far flung members would be excluded if they operated
> outside this circle.  They could always join a more
> local club to them and then assist that clubs efforts in
> such contests.
>  
> Chris 
>  
> 
> > Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:21:19 +0100
> > From: microwaves at blueyonder.co.uk
> > To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 80m CCs : An ideal
> opportunity to drop PSK ... for good!
> > 
> > On 23/07/2011 19:54, Nigel G3TXF wrote:
> > > Hello UK Contesters,
> > >
> > > Simple solution Chaps ... let's just drop from
> next year's
> > > CCs this ridiculous (for contesting) mode called
> PSK.
> > >
> > > Please revert to CW, SSB and just plain RTTY.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hear hear!!!
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