[UK-CONTEST] HF Championship

[G3VAO]

My confusion lies with the HF Championship not the Contest Calendar. I do not understand what it is supposed to be giving credit/status for as to win or do well in it you MUST enter CW contests. If it was a true Championship it would cover all modes equally and it would be possible (but unlikely) for a single mode operator to win.

If the HFCC wishes to make it fair why not give credit for the UK operators taking part in major contest run by other countries ie
the EUHFC, CQWW, IARU.  It should not be beyond the imagination of the HFCC to award credit for the highest placed UK station in these contests. Do I hear "But then how do you cater for all the sub-divisions" well try this there are only 3 main divisions High Power, Low Power and QRP.  within those each mode has its own place.  Finally, just to level the playing field a little bit personal calls should be used not contest calls and remove the quaint restriction on Aerials as it is counter to the principle of improving station performance.


Lee, I have to say I am mildly surprised to read you say "so the HFCC have focussed on morse and voice events"     I my view they focus on CW events and pay lip service to voice events - the lack of a 160m SSB (voice) contest demonstrates that.

73 de Mike
G3VAO     

Sorry Lee I did not intend to send this to you (other than thro the group) finger trouble!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lee Volante 
  To: UK Contest Group 
  Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] HF Championship



  Hi Mike,

  Good question !  The HFCC has long recognised a mode imbalance within the 
  RSGB HF contest calendar as a whole - it was heavily weighted towards CW. 
  Hence the committee was pleased to redress this with the 80m CC SSB / data 
  contests which started in 2004, and they proved to be very popular.

  There are no additional SSB events considered suitable for addition to the 
  HF Championship tables though.  However, ideas and discussions for 
  additional SSB events are under discussion right now, for hopeful inclusion 
  in 2007 and beyond.

  Traditionally BARTG has represented the UK with HF RTTY contests which it 
  does very well. There's no wish to clash or overlap, and so the HFCC have 
  focussed on morse and voice events.

  73,

  Lee G0MTN

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "G3VAO" <G3VAO at HortonBC.Demon.co.uk>
  To: "UK Contest Group" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
  Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 9:16 PM
  Subject: [UK-CONTEST] HF Championship


  > Has anyone any idea as to what the HF Championship is about? witj a ratio 
  > of 7 CW events to 2 SSB events it strikes me that it cannot be classified 
  > as truly HF Championship.
  >
  > Where are the other modes and why the bias towards CW?
  >
  > Mike
  > G3VAO
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