[UK-CONTEST] Contest awareness.

[Don Field]

I advertised twice in RadCom during my tenure as Ctst Cttee Chairman and
Board Member for Sport Radio, looking for someone to publicise RSGB
contests and awards, but nil response. There is a job there waiting to be
done!

Don G3XTT

On 22 September 2012 08:11, Chris G3SJJ <g3sjj at btinternet.com> wrote:

> I recall that during my time on HFCC G4IQM (now SK) was responsible for
> publicity of HF RSGB Contests. So it has been done before!
>
> Chris G3SJJ
>
>
>
> On 22/09/2012 07:24, brian coyne wrote:
>
>> 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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