[UK-CONTEST] Club Calls Contest

[Steve White]

Callum:
It's not all Smarties that make people go 'grrr', it's just the blue ones.
Stay off the blue ones and you'll be OK.

All:
Operated /P and experienced some deliberate jamming before kick-off, by
someone who wanted me to QSY and leave a quiet frequency for him. No deal!

I remember a previous exchange of views on the exchange of club name in CCC.
The adjudicator entered the debate to say that HFCC were NOT that picky
about it, so if you logged 'Radio Club' when it was actually 'Radio Society'
(I have often heard inconsistent names given by different members of the
same club/society) or spelt Lichfield wrong, you shouldn't be penalised.

So far as I'm concerned, the fact that there were some inexperienced contest
operators on the band should be a cause for celebration. Although I find it
as frustrating as everyone else when my report is repeated back to me, let's
not lambast them for not being slick, let's encourage them into the fold and
help them improve.

Steve, G3ZVW.



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> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:33:42 -0000
> From: "Callum M0MCX" <callum at mccormick.uk.com>
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Club Calls report
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> With a loaded 80 meter loop, snipped to make a 160m halo, I was never
going
> to set any scores alight. I managed 47 in the end on my first Club Calls
> contest.
>
> Before I forget ? I must say that I found the quality of operating tonight
> pretty abysmal ? particularly if one compares with international contest
> operating but even comparing against 80m CC - which I would have thought
had
> sharpened many of them up (inc me, I hope!).
>
> Just for fun, here are my gripes
>
> 1) No consistent use of the /P for those clubs signing portable. Not only
> would they completely forget to use the /P altogether but when calling CQ
> they would sometimes leave it out altogether and then only put it in right
> at the end of the CQ call. Why?
>
> 2) Consistently getting their call wrong or using the wrong call. I always
> write the call I?m using on a big piece of paper and read it out. Clearly
> the GX stations forgot to do this.
>
> 3) Ops waffling wasting huge amounts of time. I?m not complaining about
the
> "Have a good contest / good luck / thanks for the call" brigade but those
> who repeat YOUR report several times. I know my report I gave you!
>
> 4) Ops that don?t listen to the problem. You ask "last letter only please"
> and you get the whole lot again including report and club name.
>
> In fairness, I think I had too many Smarties tonight, they make me
slightly
> "Grrr" and remove all traces of patience I may have had!
>
> Grrr! :)
>
> Callum!
>