[CQ-Contest] FD observations and suggestion

[John T. Laney III]

Roger Parsons wrote:

>I was brought into contesting through National Field
>Day in the UK. That was, and is, an out and out (CW
>only) contest, was by far my favourite event of the
>year, and I miss it almost (but not quite) as much as
>English pubs. When I moved to Canada I was horrified
>to find that our local club saw Field Day as an
>opportunity to get together, chew the rag, munch a few
>burgers.
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>Over the past 10 years I guess I have mellowed a
>little, but this year we finally had an all-out effort
>which resulted in a doubling of our previous best ever
>score. But we also had a GOTA station with equal
>equipment and antennas to our two main stations.
>EVERBODY had a wonderful time. One of our GOTA
>operators stayed up all night with a happy grin on his
>face - he made over 100 contacts which was probably
>more than he had previously ever made on hf.
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>The only change I would make to the rules is to remove
>the 15 minute band/mode change prohibition. That rule
>means that 160m is effectively not used and that one
>is very careful about 10m. I know about octopusses
>(octopi?), but it is a shame that one cannot move to
>an underused band, have a couple of quick contacts and
>move back again.
>
>73 Roger
>VE3ZI/G3RBP
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Roger:  I was fooled about the band change rule this year.  There is no 
longer a band change minimum in the FD rules.  I think it disappeared 
last year.  73, John, K4BAI.