[UK-CONTEST] RSGB 21/28MHz contest

[Rob Harrison]

Hi Chris,

As one of those who wanted the 21/28 contest to remain in the calendar (what 
were they thinking!) I welcome your proposal in general and thanks for the 
opportunity to respond.

I'm new to HF, but 28Mhz has always held a fascination for me, it was the 
catalyst to obtaining my license in 1973. To test the waters I put up a low 
dipole(3M agl) for the 2011 ARRL 10M and had a good time with 100w SSB 
playing around on and off over the weekend, and have dabbled a bit in other 
contests since.

Whilst I can see your reasoning for extending the bands down to 80M, I can 
see that detracting from 10 & 15 specially over the next few years, with 
stations just using their existing antennas for "easy" contacts on 80 thru' 
20M and not bothering with 10 & 15 if conditons are absent. Bit of a catch 
22 that one.

I don't use automatic PC logging as my station is set up primarily for 
VHF/UHF and whilst I use a PC contest logging program for scoring, it 
doesn't do frequency other the just band. I could log manually, but it would 
be a pain to transcribe afterwards. Would NN1N suffice with say 28.500 as a 
default frequency? Probably not, I used that post contest for the ARRL 10M 
with minute timings and it was accepted as an entry. I'm not sure what 
percentage of amateurs use a full logging program these days, but for me 
it's not a priority, and would involve extra expense, and there was quite a 
reluctance to it in the RSGB "Litmus test" proposals recently.

Penalties, if you are going to be harsh, you have to be correct. If I'm 
wrong I deserve to lose points, if the other party caused the apparent error 
I do not. Until that is sorted out, and there seems to be a reluctance, that 
word again, to do that from some quarters, then harsh penalties will just 
drive people away feeling aggrieved.

Contest exchanges need to have a bare minimun standard across all contests 
and all participants from wherever; you can add the extra info' if you wish 
as the organiser. The signal report should be the basic requirement. At the 
moment, on some weekends, there are upteen different formats being used 
which don't mix easily. Coming from a VHF background, where everyone works 
everyone more or less all the time in contests, I've found it strange when a 
station doesn't want to work me, due to his contest rules, but mine say he's 
fair game.


73

Bob Harrison G8HGN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Tran GM3WOJ" <gm3woj at christran.net>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 8:44 AM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] RSGB 21/28MHz contest


> Tuesday 2nd October 2012
>
> Hello UK-contesters
>
> Clive GM3POI and I have drawn up a proposal for a new HF contest, to 
> replace the existing 21/28MHz contest, starting in October 2013.
>
> This year's 21/28MHz event is this coming weekend 6/7th October.
>
> Please visit :
>
> www.qsl.net/gm3woj/rsgbdxcontest.htm
>
> You can respond on this reflector or off-reflector to  gm3woj 
> ..at...talk21.com
>
> Thanks -73
>
> Chris
> GM3WOJ
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