[UK-CONTEST] February 2006 RadCom

[Dave Sergeant]

On 20 Jan 2006 at 19:46, Lee Volante wrote:

> Can anyone tell us how much contesting coverage there is, on average, in the 
> DL, W, JA, I, SP, EA, VK national society magazines.  This would give us a 
> greater understanding of where RadCom really lies.

As far as the USA is concerned, ARRL made the decision a couple of 
years ago to only publish line scores online, apart from their Field 
Day and another domestic contest which escapes me. That said though, 
the February issue (which arrived a full week before RadCom) has six 
pages of contest news - two of these for the contest calendar, and 
the rest for the results of the 2005 IARU contest. The latter has the 
top 10 for the various sections (with a prominent entry for G3YMC) 
and the USA and continental leaders. But not the full line scores. 
Some months there is nothing but the calendar.

On the whole I think RadCom does a reasonable deal when there are 
plenty of other avenues to get the information these days. But I do 
feel some months they digress a lot from real radio, and this month 
is no exception. I notice they seem to be struggling to get any real 
news on GB2RS, with quite a lot of totally off subject topics and the 
very dated information that HZ1AB has closed down. In that respect 
the ARRL Letter I get by email knock the socks off it.

But we are all allowed our own opinions, and must also realise there 
is more to amateur radio than contests.

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com