[UK-CONTEST] AFS

[Douglas Maxwell]

Remember there is no limit to the number of teams participating from any one
club, so reducing the number in each team does not necessarily discourage
newer members. The rules say up to 5 members in one team, we only had 2
members participating but really to contribute to the event rather than
compete. I'm all in favour of reducing the team size so that smaller clubs
can compete. I have a feeling the 5 member limit is an attempt to keep CW
alive in clubs by forcing existing CW ops to bring new operators onto the
mode.

Doug GM0ELP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Hobbs" <peter at tilgate.co.uk>
To: "UK Contest reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] AFS


> 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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