[UK-CONTEST] Jubilee contest - the future in the past?

[Nigel Cawthorne]

Message text written by "Peter Hobbs"
>On a more constructive note, I was wondering if whatever
>"Empire" contest we end up with (assuming the ultra PC guys 
>don't have it all their own way) couldn't be shared with (dare 
>I say it?) the French.  I haven't kept up to speed lately, but 
>there used to be a Union Francaise contest that must have 
>some commonality with BERU and they have some pretty 
choice territories under their banner.  It would take a braver 
>man than I to broach the idea with REF, but in the spirit of 
>EU cooperation etc., etc., who knows?

Great idea Peter. But why just the French? Let's get the DARC
involved so we can include Togo, Cameroon (again) and
South West Africa. Then there's VERON. They could bring
in Indonesia and Surinam. Oh, there's URE in Spain and
whatever they're called in Portugal. They could bring in the
rest of South America, most of the Caribbean and some nice
ones like CR4, CR5, CR6 and CR7 in Africa.

Yes, it'd be quite an event, this new "Worked all old Empires" 
Contest of yours. In the style of early pre-war 'contests' it should
run for seven days. None of this namby-pamby 12-hour stuff.

Count me in - provided, of course, it's on CW only and the PA can 
only be an 807.

[OK .. there can be a QRO section for those using a single 813.]

73 - Nigel G3TXF