[UK-CONTEST] AFS

[Dave Sergeant]

On 12 Jan 2006 at 13:42, Alex Allan wrote:

> I would be interested to hear what the original logic for the difference
> in team sizes might have been?  I suspect a number of groups/clubs do
> have difficulty in raising 5 CW ops.

When we as Bracknell ARC won AFS in the early 1970s just after the 
rules changed to their new format (but when we still had to send AFS 
to identify as a club station) we did indeed have a full complement 
of 5 entrants. In those days we had quite a few well known HF CW 
operators in our midst and it was relatively easy to find the 5 or 
more - and the average QSO numbers were way down as well. These days 
not only has our club membership dropped significantly, but only a 
few are active on HF and CW. We had 3 good ops on this year (after a 
bit of arm twisting..) so the change as suggested would suit us very 
nicely!

I suspect though we will have zero participants in the SSB leg (not 
even a microphone here)..

73 Dave G3YMC

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