[UK-CONTEST] CQWW CW 2011 Results............

Peter Bowyer peter at bowyer.org
Sun Aug 26 15:19:15 EDT 2012


On 26 August 2012 18:18, Roger Western <g3sxw at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 'Up 1' is very appropriate for contesting but ONLY if used by rare
> multipliers. And that will never happen. As soon as it starts to be seen as
> 'acceptable' then every Tom LZ and Dick HA and Harry UR will be banging
> away, totally trashing the bands!
>
> I am very glad that K3EST has finally promulgated a view on this. From West
> Africa every November it's a big disadvantage for us to not go split but we
> don't want to open the flood-gates.
> 73 de Roger/G3SXW.

Even from a semi-rare mult (9M6) a few years back, a near-unique in
the contest, 'up 1' dramatically improved
the rate and therefore the number of stations who worked the mult.

Peter G4MJS (9M6A at the time)


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