[UK-CONTEST] Fw: Commonwealth Contest.

[Peter Hobbs]

 John,

 It IS the Commonwealth contest and has been these many years.  It's just
 that "BERU" trips off the key rather neatly and has continued to be the
 norm, except for the one station I heard using CC (and we all know who that
 was), which of course led us all to thinking that over-consumption had
 caused him to get the day/time/band for one of the Club Championship
 event(s) wrong . . .

 I throughly support your comments on use of the "cluster", which of course
 is just blatant cheating and defeats the whole purpose, however I always
 thought (never investigated it myself) the cluster was accessed by logging
 on to some VHF portal, rather than necessarily on-line, so I'm not entirely
 sure if your rationale relating to computer operating is the whole story.
 No objection of course to a properly identified "cheats" category in the
 results of any contest.

 Peter G3LET


 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "john ellerton" <jae at beeb.net>
 To: "UK CONTEST" <uk-contest at contesting.com>

 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