[UK-CONTEST] BERU !

[Andy Cook, G4PIQ]

That would be a good move for me. Right now you sort of get forced down to
the band edges - blocking the bottom 10 kHz off would be no hardship &
reduce the agro.

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Don Beattie
Sent: 15 March 2005 08:38
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] BERU !


Bob Henderson wrote:

"However, I see no reason why the rules should not be changed to make the
operating segment run from 010 to 040 on 80/40 metres to prevent
unecessarily annoying non participants.  Yes, other DX contests use the
bottom 10 kHz on these bands but the activity level in CQWW and WPX etc make
it somewhat unavoidable where as in BERU it does not."

I think this is worth considering. Although it would make choice of
operating frequency on 80 a tad tricky, I do feel bad having run-ins with
the DX police every BERU. One was particularly trying this year, and only
gave up when I was called by some VK on 80. As Bob says, BERU is not a huge
contest, so we can't really put forward a volume of stations argument for
busting the agreement about the DX/non-contest window.

What does everyone else think ?

Don, G3BJ


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