[UK-CONTEST] 2m Trophy etc

[Ken Eastty]

I agree,

There's just not enough interest (especially among our club members) to 
take part in portable contests except HF NFD, even that we can only just 
manage, mixing HF & VHF wouldn't work for us, maybe there are now just 
too many RSGB contests to fit in the available weekends.

I spent a short time on 2m this weekend with the intention of giving 
points away but got fed up with trying to decide which way to beam. This 
was made  more difficult as hardly anyone (as usual) gave a clue as to 
their approximate location when calling CQ, the increasing number of 
weird callsigns being used (which I fail to see the point of) doesn't 
help when trying to decide which way to beam either. Is it really so 
difficult to program the stations location into a voice keyer?

 From the depths of Cheltenham I never heard more than a handful of 
stations at any one time which leads me to ask where the 7-800 stations 
being worked by some were located, were most of them across the Channel? 
I'd be surprise of many of them were in the UK. Perhaps a map of all of 
the stations worked could be produced.

Finally.....I notice the lack of Foundation & Intermediate calls 
appearing in the entries for VHF contests, maybe not surprising when 
these licensees are expected to compete with others running full legal 
power. Perhaps separate sections for these licensees might encourage a 
few more of them to have a go on on VHF instead of spending all of their 
time on 80 & 40m etc.

73...

Ken

G3LVP



Hi, Simple answer move SSB FD, the Trophy is a IARU co-ordinated event 
so all of Europe is on the air that weekend. I'm assuming FD is not 
co-ordinated outside the UK. I've never understood the logic of having 
seperate VHF & HF contests over the same weekend, some people find it 
difficult to get any time at all, let alone 24 hours, and then to have 
two conflicting contests on the same weekend is just plain daft. I did 
the Trophy in two 3 hours stints Saturday evening, virtually all S&P, 
only worked one G, one GD and two GM's, all the rest from Europe. Like 
John, no propogation to EA either, heard 5P5T for long spells, but 
couldn't raise them.