[UK-CONTEST] February 2006 Radcom

[Colin Potter]

Hi Colin,

Surely the figure of 55,000 should be replaced by the number of hams who are
actually active and who are rather few going by the number you hear on the
air. My guess is that while a some go on the repeaters and some more are in
natter nets on 80m, the numbers of truly active but non-contesting hams may
be a minority.

Regarding this month's RadCom - I cannot even see reference to the contest
page in the "Regulars" section of the Contents!! Shame!

Incidentally, I would be much more interested in occasional articles and the
cover featuring the hard-working regular contributors to RadCom rather than
"celebrities" however worthy, including PAXMAS...

73 Colin M0DDT



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "col" <col at v21mail.co.uk>
To: "Chris Tran" <zl1ct at gm7v.com>; <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] February 2006 Radcom


> Hi Chris
>
> I agree with your comments on the importance of the contesting community.
> However I have come to accept that our particular interest in the hobby is
> seen as a minority interest. How many UK amateurs actively contest? I
would
> suggest a figure in the low hundreds. I am not sure of the exact total of
> currently licensed amateurs but RSGB suggests 55,000.
> if we are generous and suggest 550 active Amateurs contest out of 55,000
we
> are a 1% minority!
> Who can blame the RSGB for not devoting more than 2 pages to a 1%
minority!
> I am surprised its not down to 1 page to be honest!
>
> I don't want to over simplify the argument as I know how many developments
> contesting contributes to (antenna design, station aids, software etc)
> It does beg the question would the UK contesting community be better
served
> by a Separate national society or foundation, with its own web site and
> e-publication? An extension of uk-contest if you like.Where all relevant
> information, news, contest calendars, results can be displayed. I know its
> an onerous task  to run a web site and keep it updated.
>
> I don't know if there would be enough interest to make it worthwhile, but
> would certainly offer help to anyone with the ability and contest
knowledge
> to put it together.I unfortunately don't have the necessary IT skills to
> make it happen!
>
> 73 Colin  GM0RLZ
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Tran" <zl1ct at gm7v.com>
> To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:19 PM
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] February 2006 Radcom
>
>
> > Hello all
> >
> > Feb. 2006 'Radcom' arrived today in the Highlands.  I'm disappointed
that
> > no-one on the Radcom editorial staff seems to understand the importance
of
> > contesting to our hobby - for example, why is Tim G4VXE forced to
squeeze
> > everything into 2 pages (P54/55 - not even in the index !) while there
are
> > acres of wasted space at the top of pages ?  Also, the members ads could
> > be
> > made much smaller, etc.....
> >
> > The letter from G3NCN on P.96 is also a waste of space - he even
concedes
> > that non-contesters are the 'minority' on the CQ WW weekends especially.
> > All
> > this has been gone over ad nauseum.
> >
> > In between hastily installing an antenna to work 3Y0, I feel a letter to
> > the
> > Editor coming on ....
> >
> > 73
> > Chris
> > GM3WOJ/ZL1CT
> >
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