[UK-CONTEST] Contest awareness.

[brian coyne]

Most certainly Rob - would that be such an onerous task for a committee member?

Creating international awareness is important for the diehard uk entrants who need stations to work and is not hard to acieve through sites such as WA7BNM. Also let me quote the excellent  work of Brian Miller with his marketing, and follow ups, of the Oceana contests.

Admittadly the most difficult task is getting to the 'fringe' uk ops who do not subscribe to this Relector, read the Radiosport Radcom pages or listen to RSGB News. The 'Contest Alert' system we subscribe to seems a bit hit and miss (and this target audience will not be subscribers anyway), I certainly don't get very many.  Would it be a breach of data protection to get together all of the mail addresses of all the UK and overseas entrants who enter Club contests, Beru, Iota etc into one database and send a mailshot  say one week ahead of our events where appropriate ?. Such personal invitations do work, I have been prompted  on many occaisions to get on air due to those reminders.

'He who whispers down a well about the things he has to sell  doe's not make so many dollars as he who climbs a hill and hollers'.

73  Brian 5B4AIZ / C4Z.


--- On Sat, 22/9/12, G4LMW <g4lmw at btconnect.com> wrote:

Then perhaps we need a "publicity officer"?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Hobbs" <peter at tilgate.co.uk>
To: "G4LMW" <g4lmw at btconnect.com>
Cc: "brian coyne" <g4odv at yahoo.co.uk>; "UK Contest" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Contest awareness.


> Rob
> 
> On this occasion I have to agree wholeheartedly with Brian.  A central aim of any contest organiser is to maximise activity and entries; as much publicity as possible is therefore to everyone's advantage.  Brian's point was not that WA7BNM's site had errors, just that it was unaware of some or all of the RSGB's events - something that he has kindly remedied.
> As for the BBC, where does "whatsonTV.com" get their forward content?  For sure the Beeb will have taken pro-active action here.   Bearing in mind the perennial (and political) audience wars, I'd be surprised if they leave any free stone unturned!
> 
> 73, Peter G3LET
> 
> G4LMW wrote:
> 
>> Brian
>> 
>> Why should any organisation be charged with policing the content of any third-party site?
>> 
>> Is it the BBC's job to ensure that "whatsontv.com" has their schedules correct?
>> 
>> I doubt it.
>> 
>> Rob, G4LMW
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "brian coyne" <g4odv at yahoo.co.uk>
>> To: "UK Contest" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 2:11 PM
>> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Contest awareness.
>> 
>> 
>>> I was looking at the WA7BNM contest calandar and noted there is no mention of the RSGB 21/28 mhz contest of 7th October.
>>> 
>>> I have mailed Bruce with a link to the HFCC website page.
>>> 
>>> Whilst not wishing to appear nit- picking surely publicity and checking of known sites uogh't to be a task of a committee member.
>>> 
>>> The SM3CER contest calandar only shows for this current month but perhaps that can be checked also at the end of the month.
>>> 
>>> 73 Brian 5B4AIZ /C4Z.
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