[UK-CONTEST] Club Calls report

[G3SJJ]

A last minute invite out to dinner meant that for the whole length of 
the contest I had to sit in in a really pleasant restaurant, with good 
company, good food and good wine, so missed out on the proceedings, but 
a couple of comments :

1 - On a positive note Callum, the fact that you have some strong 
criticisms just shows how well your own contest operating technique is 
progressing. That's good!

2 - I think the contest would lose some of its character if there was no 
mention of the club name but I do think the cumbersome accoutrements are 
unnecessary, eg "and District Radio Society."

Like the Commonwealth Contest, this one also appears to serve a purpose 
and have a good following so I would like to see HFCC make some 
proposals. It's a difficult one. Some thoughts of mine are : 1) Club 
name given as one word eg Reading, so the exchange becomes Reading 
Member or Reading Station, 2) Four letter exchange based on name and 
post code eg RDRG. A bit messy! Another thought might be to relax the 
logging requirement to allow it to be logged in abbreviated form.

Dunno, needs some debate and then some action!!  Commonwealth and 21/28 
have been changed so this one should be feasible.

Chris G3SJJ



Callum M0MCX wrote:
>>>> think the exchange in Club Calls is likely to put them off for life
>>>>         
>
> Well said Ian. It's a different matter if we had this on 2m SSB or perhaps
> even 80m but many hams don't have 160m antennas and the ones that do are
> looking at a major compromise with a manual ATU to get on the band so with
> QSB and QRN and hopeless operating, the whole thing is a dog's breakfast for
> many of us.
>
> It would be a different matter if I had a dipole at 120 feet or something
> but having such long contest exchanges with the technical difficulties that
> I faced, I'll think twice before doing this one again, unless all I had to
> capture was a serial number, then it might be worth a shot.
>
> Of course, the Smarties didn't help - but maybe it really was that
> frustrating?
>
> Still feeling "Grrr" :)
>
> C.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Fugler G4IIY [mailto:zen90387 at zen.co.uk] 
> Sent: 12 November 2006 07:34
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Club Calls report
>
> Callum
>
> I guess the answer, at least partly, rests within the stated aim of the 
> contest:
>
> to encourage contacts between Affiliated Societies... and to encourage new 
> licensees to operate under appropriate supervision.
>
> I assume that the encouragement to new licensees is as much to operate in a 
> contest environment, as opposed to just operating.  If that is the case, I 
> think the exchange in Club Calls is likely to put them off for life.
>
> Ian
>
>
>
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