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

[Nigel G3TXF]

Hello Robert,

1. A February start date for CCs is fine (assuming that this
means in effect that you are just dropping the January CC
events). No problem with that as we already have two AFS
Contests in January, and inter-UK propagation in the evening
in January is often useless.

2. 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 - Nigel G3TXF





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Robert
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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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