[UK-CONTEST] Jubilee contest - the future ?

[Mike Farmer]

> It's certainly the case that I came across no local 9M6 op who knew about
or
> was the slightest bit interested in the Jubilee contest (or the Jubilee
full
> stop, but that's another point). I believe I was the only 9M6 active. If
> 9M6CT had been around, I'm sure he would have joined in (he's an
> ex-pat....). The club station here has been QRV in BERU for the last
couple
> of years, operated by visiting Gs, and last weekend by another (me). The
> only active 9M2 (as far as I could tell) was 9M2/G4ZFE. A 9V1 called me to
> ask what it was all about, and promptly got shunted around 4 bands for his
> trouble. I don't know if he then went on to work many others, though.


Perhaps the peak of popularity was in the days when the British Forces were
based world wide and provided the majority of the overseas operators in the
BERU.

I recall some suggestions about categories by power - I like that, as long
as the fact that most (I think) black boxes provide 100w, results in a 100w
category.  HFCC please do not bring aerial systems into the categories as
you have got in FD. That does nothing to encourage improvement of the
station by improvements to AEs.


73 de Mike