[UK-CONTEST] Numbers of G stations entering International contests

[Bruce B. Sawyer]

> Yes, and I think that a contest such as BERU fails on this count, even
> though I don't doubt the skill of the top participants.

There's absolutely NOTHING wrong with the Commonwealth Contest; it's one of
my favorite events of the whole year.  With the exception of the FOC
Marathon, this is the only contest I ever enter where I can count on
gentlemen behaving like gentlemen and not having to waste cycles defending
myself against eye-gouging and elbows aimed at the ribs.  Yes, it is a bit
slow, even from this side of the pond.  But as many experienced hands will
be quick to point out, this contest is about quality, not quantity.  The
challenge is not maintaining rate, but being able to catch the interesting
openings.  I think it's a wonderful contest--I would gladly trade entering
CQWW for entering BERU any day of the week.

With that said, however, I would cast a vote (were I allowed to do so) to
treat G/GM/GW/GD/GU as separate call areas.  As has been pointed out before,
if VE1 can work VE3 for credit, then it doesn't seem to make a whole lot of
sense that G can't work GM.  I think that single change might make it more
interesting for the folks in the UK...and possibly get more of them active
as a result.

Bruce, ZF2NT