[UK-CONTEST] 2m Trophy etc

[Rob Harrison]

Ken,

A single band effort on 144, or any other band, should be within your clubs' 
compass. Multi-band's a different thing.

The bulk of the entrants were in Europe, UK activity was limited. For 
reasons see my other post re times etc.

The UKAC's on Tuesday evenings are well supported by Foundation & 
Intermediate licencees. But this is 2+ hours on a weekday night, not rather 
longer over a weekend.

73 Bob G8HGN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Eastty" <ken.g3lvp at btinternet.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 2m Trophy etc


>
> 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.
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