[UK-CONTEST] AFS

[Peter Hobbs]

I thought the idea of a team of 5 in AFS CW was to encourage broader
development of contest expertise within the clubs, rather than giving
advantage to those with relatively few "expert" members.  When the SSB
section was added (I think as a replacement for the defunct (SW) Magazine
Club Contest - MCC) a lower level of participation or perhaps capability was
anticipated compared to the long established CW section and so the team size
was reduced to 3.  As this is probably no longer the case, shouldn't we
therefore consider increasing the SSB team size to 5?  I don't think a
smaller team size is likely to encourage newer members to participate, in
fact quite the reverse.

Regards

Peter G3LET

----- Original Message -----
From: "G3SJJ" <g3sjj at btinternet.com>
Cc: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] AFS


> I fully support this proposal that a team of three should apply to the
> CW event as well as the SSB event.
>
> Thanks to Clive for raising it.  Chris G3SJJ
>
>
> Clive GM3POI wrote:
>
> >I don't think this question has been asked about Club entries. You will
see
> >from Sept/Oct 2005 results with the last two AFS contests, that the
overall
> >entry numbers were roughly equal namely
> >230 SSB and 246 CW. Why is there still a requirement on CW for Five
stations
> >to make up a club entry when a more reasonable three is required for SSB.
> >In last years CW event only 23 clubs managed 5 stations out of 88 Clubs
but
> >during the SSB event 55 managed 3 stations from 99 Clubs.
> >It's about time that the CW event was made the same as SSB which would be
> >fairer to smaller clubs and encourage the new support that the RSGB I
hope
> >would like.
> >73 Clive GM3POI
> >
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