[UK-CONTEST] Commonwealth 2004 - Power levels/Sections etc..

[Paul Brice-Stevens]

Hi Laurence,

I remember the Equipment code...and I for one used to fill it 
in...however this is palpably different from having different sections 
to enter within the contest...

When you enter in CQWW you don't just send in a general entry!...No you 
enter it in the section you are competing in...I fail to see that this 
would be any different?...or am I missing something...there was no 
incentive to put the equipment code in as it made no difference to your 
standing in the overall listing...there is no separate section for 
HP/LP/QRP...so equipment codes, apart from a mild sort of interest, had 
no bearing on the situation...

I understand that the log checking of AFS is an onerous task...however 
people would be entering into different sections and then being listed 
overall as well...this to the uninitiated (although quite happy to help 
with the task) does not seem too different to how it is carried out now.

Whaddya say?

73

Paul G0WAT

In message <4059FF70.69AA5DD4 at forest-farm.co.uk>, Laurence Mason 
<laurence at forest-farm.co.uk> writes
>Paul,
>
>We used to have the equipment codes to show approximately what was being
>used by the entrants:
>
>power (on a 'log' scale)
>antenna height (to within 10 feet)
>antenna type (broad category)
>antenna number of elements
>
>The big problem was that a lot of entrants did not record the equipment
>code on the cover sheet so the adjudicator had to work it out - a bit of
>a bind for the smaller contests a royal pain in the proverbial for AFS -
>particularly with the number of entrants who don't give enough detail to
>make the code meaningful - four blank characters was the case for some.
>Look back to the results tables when it was last reported.
>
>It was always interesting to be able to see how similarly equipped
>stations compared. There was insufficient take up - having had the codes
>for a number of years - so they were dropped. Pity but there we are and
>life moves on.
>
>Laurence G4HTD
>
>
>
>Paul Brice-Stevens wrote:
>>
>> Complete agreement with Mike and Daves comments...I have felt for a long
>> time that all RSGB contests should have 3 power sections...400w
>> (Ahem!)...100w and 5w (10w if you must)...just like CQWW and ARRL DX...a
>> case could also be made for single elements (dipoles/verticals etc..) as
>> well.
>>
>> A prime candidate for this would be AFS.(power part, not single element
>> bit obviously).. as in 400w (coughs up sleeve in Eric Morecambe Arsenal
>> manner)...100w and QRP...it would still allow you to have a listing of
>> all competitors...then Clubs...then 400/100/5 watters...it would
>> encourage people top compete against one another in the same power class
>> as well as competing overall in the full listing.
>>
>>
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