[UK-CONTEST] Commonwealth Contest.

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I have to agree with you John
Who would want to celebrate an empire built on slavery and the pillaging of 
natural resources?
As for having clout Mr Mugabe doesn't seem too perturbed by The 
Commonwealth!
Notice its not called the British Commonwealth anymore. Sorry for being a 
bit political but this one is a red rag to a bull for some.

Colin GM0RLZ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "john ellerton" <jae at beeb.net>
To: "UK CONTEST" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Commonwealth Contest.


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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