[UK-CONTEST] NFD Changes

[Gerard Lynch]

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> Let's get behind this initiative. NFD is slowly dying over the long term,
> many clubs have fewer and fewer operators.

I think that's the nub of the problem.  My club could only manage 2 
operators capable of CW contest operating   As others have said, we could 
manage on that no problem but it asks a lot of people to help set up a 
station they're never going to operate.  So we don't do HF NFD.  Don't even 
think about it, actually.

The only time I was involved in a HF NFD operation properly was from GI in 
1998 or 1999 when I was asked to come along and help out a club that I 
wasn't a member of that only had one CW operator - beer, barby and CW in a 
caravan on Groomsport Harbour?  It sounded good to me and it was, but this 
was one of the biggest clubs in GI and it could only muster a single CW 
operator.

I suspect there are an awful lot of clubs that probably couldn't manage to 
find anyone to operate a CW contest, even clunking along at 15 words per 
minute with a straight key.  C'est la vie.

The solution is to train more CW operators... any thoughts on that would be 
more than welcome, although that might be a long thread.  ;-)

Oh, I think the other problem is that most of us young 'uns who can do CW 
contests like the high rate, kilowatt and stacked yagi stuff.  Maybe it's a 
question of temperament?

73

Gerry G0RTN
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