[UK-CONTEST] Consultation - NFD

[Dave Sharred]

Sorry to be late on this thread; been away for 2 weeks. So, too late for any
feedback to Dave; but still worthy of a quick comment

I am in favour of trying to commonise as much as possible with EU; and would
fully support changing to the EU scoring system with mults.

My reasons would be that you then have a common strategy with EU -  we are
working for the same goals.

I agree that fixed stations should not be allowed, or if they are, in a
definite separate section, with no awards !!

I don't think that we should be over sensitive to the far flung GJ/GU/GD
mult issues .  I know I have a vested interest with a foot in the GD0EMG
camp;   but, 3 things  -

1) Last year; G6YB  gave GD0EMG (minus me!) a run for their money.    This
year; we (Lichfield ARS) also managed to put a score up near where EMG would
have been.

2) It is not a recent thing for activity from these "outposts". I know the
AAA team have covered UK well over the years, but with the greatest respect
to Roger/Nigel/Ian; I never remember them dominating from these places in
the past ?  Competitive yes !

3) I seem to recall also the packet spots for some of the leading teams in
NFD suggest that GD0EMG do not get spotted significantly more than G6YB/P,
or G5XV/P; who do have rarer prefixes?  a G3 / P always gets spotted less !
So there are always other points when deciding what is an advantage and not
!

A 4th point is, if someone wants to try GU/GJ/GD, then they can always try
that; and make a real club effort at doing something special, and making an
event out of it !!


73

Dave