[UK-CONTEST] 80m contests

[Dave Sharred]

Clive,

No-one from the HFCC has commented on this, and to be fair, BUO was not at
the meeting when this decision was made (HFC in October)

I was , and supported the change, so don't mind sharing the reasoning with
you !

There was some discussion on the success of the championships; and, whether
it needed to be tinkered with.  Since these are very short duration events,
and very frequent, there were comments about it's timing, after the clocks
got changed. It was generally felt that using a BST start time would be
beneficial to some people; and maybe less disruptive to people's social
arrangements!  Whilst a 10:30 finish is not past my bedtime, it is a little
later than I would personally prefer of a workday !!

It was also acknowledged that , at the time of the clock time changes, it
had caused some confusion to some people in the past; possibly less
experienced people, but also complacent people like me, who have been guilty
on occasions in assuming they know the rules, so don't recheck the start
times !!!!

I seem to recall that GM4FDM was also at the meeting, so there was some
representation from North of the Border!

So, it was made with the best of intentions; it is unfortunate that you feel
it disadvantaged GM stations.

Cheers

Dave



-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Clive GM3POI
Sent: 03 April 2006 01:25
To: UK-Contest at contesting.com
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] 80m contests


G4BUO said :
"Just a quick reminder that HFCC has changed the times of the 80m CC
contests so that all sessions start at 8pm local time. Now we're on BST
that means that the first session of April, tomorrow night, commences at
19:00GMT."

It will have not passed the notice of those away from the centres of
populution,
that after a few occasions when more central stations have not done so well,
that we
now have the CC contests starting in February instead of January and now 19Z
instead of 20Z.
Can any member of the HFCC given this change, offer a very good reason to us
in the sticks, but still part of Great Britain  why we should bother
entering this contest  outside of Feb-Apr.
BTW we know why it was changed!!
73 Clive GM3POI

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