[UK-CONTEST] Commonwealth Contest.

[john ellerton]

I have long thought , and have consequently kept out of this contest, 
that the term BERU must be like a red rag to a bull to anyone overseas. 
No wonder they don't want to continue taking part.   Ditching BERU and 
replacing it with a new, "re-sold "  commonwealth contest must be a 
priority.  After all the BE has long gone, and presumably the RU with 
it !  And by the way, please not cluster!   I thought these were Radio 
contests , not computer operating contests.

73 John G3NCN

On Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006, at 23:26 Europe/London, brian coyne wrote:

> An excellent suggestion from Ian (SEK) imo. Rebranding
> with publicity throughout the Commonwealth by liason
> with various National Societies. I don't really buy
> this Boer War, Botany Bay deportation resentment stuff
> though. Take the Commonwealth Games starting this
> week(and maybe we missed a trick here this year with
> this and our own events occuring so close). All
> eligible nations will be putting out their best
> athletes who will be filled with national pride and
> busting a gut, doing their level best to make their
> country top of the tree. These youngsters will be nth
> generation of original settlers who won't give a hoot
> about old prejudices.
> What needs to be done is to get the message out to all
> hams in these countries that they are representing
> their country as well as themselves in this enjoyable
> event. CQWW have a club category, we cdxc members are
> encouraged to show this membership on their entry so
> why not take some ideas from this. Have an award to be
> competed for by the combined totals of the top three
> entrants from each country. Something like this where
> people are battling for national pride as well as
> individual awards could give a kick start to reviving
> the interest in this established event which is well
> worth examination of all possible ideas to prevent it
> falling into oblivion, further the top three uk stns
> could have a real chance to win it. I could imagine
> existing ops in each country approaching other
> contesters they know who have never entered previously
> or even thought about it. By golly the competitive
> team spirit is still alive and well in the
> commonwealth just look at the rugby, cricket etc, why
> not ham radio?
>
> I can't agree about re-structuring the format though,
> I used to think that some extra incentive for uk
> stations would be an improvement but now feel that
> would destroy the uniqueness of the event. By the
> creation of the trophies the instigators of this test
> obviously considered that within the contest the uk
> stns would have their own contest and I feel that
> intent should still hold good.
>
>
> In response to SJJ's thoughts about the cq'ing
> procedure, sorry Chris but we would never stop ops
> from calling cq beru, it's like Horlicks, been there
> for ever and will always be there. Why does it really
> matter ? It doesn't have to mean anything, it is a
> word many know and increasingly few understand but
> they don't care what it stands for. Participants know
> it's a message they are looking for and non
> participants, the majority of experienced ones anyway,
> know to stay away from. It's like WSEM, I haven't a
> clue what it stands for and I don't care, I do know
> that it is a Russian contest for Russians only and
> that is good enough and I leave them alone.
>
> Despite the comments we have had about "time this one
> was buried" this reflector has seen more postings
> about this event than any contest for a long time, so
> not quite time for the mortuary I think.
>
> If all of us can toss our ideas in here it will give
> hfcc something to pick the bones from.
> 73,  Brian 5b/g4odv.
>
>
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