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

[Dave Sergeant]

On 18 Mar 2004 at 19:32, 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.

Three sections have worked for some time in NFD and are not 
unreasonable. The old idea of having station codes probably failed 
because it used obscure codes which needed to be checked against the 
specification in the rules - I remember I could never find the 
definitions and hence didn't bother filling them in. Also mixing up 
all the categories did not make for easy comparison in the results. 
This has happened to some extent in last year's IOTA when the QRP 
entries were mixed among the other categories (though I remember they 
are seperated out in the website report).

With regard to the support for the low power section of the club 
contests look at the current placings on the hfcc site. It is 
certainly a much smaller section but well supported (and I guess 
there are more who haven't submitted logs..). Three of the entrants 
from there in the CW leg are in fact from our own club, Bracknell 
ARC, and you will notice also that we are very well up in the overall 
club table - in fact this was from a single entry in the February 
event, only one of our stations was on in March CW as it clashed with 
our club evening. Trying to get some support for the other modes but 
it is a hard battle with our club getting them actually on the air...

73 Dave G3YMC

dave at davesergeant.com
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