[UK-CONTEST] 160m Club Calls
G3SJJ
g3sjj at btinternet.com
Fri Jan 5 18:18:05 EST 2007
Good for you Callum. Nil Carborundum etc.
The first time I adjudicated this one I penalised heavily for mis-spelt
club names, on the basis that if someone wrote (before computer
logging!) Farbrough after writing it correctly twice before then they
deserved to be penalised. Second time I was more lenient.
The requirements for this one are so wide, (and particularly with the
collapse in spelling skills over the last 4 years) that the only
sensible way is to determine if the Club name logged is anything near
its official name, eg Newbry is ok, or, I see no reason why you should
be penalised for logging Horsham ARS and then just Horsham. The main
thing is to identify the Club to as near a spelling as you can get, not
all its appendages such DARC, ARS etc. These can be found in the RSGB
Year Book anyway.
As an entrant I take the view that the adjudicator needs my entry as
much as I need to see my callsign in the list. In the old paper logging
days, (if I can remember 18 years ago!) it was perfectly acceptable to
fill in times every 10 mins or so, and put a note saying " All reports
599 unless otherwise stated," the same goes with Club Calls. Likewise
not putting 001 etc. I guess the modern equiv of that is not keying in
leading zeros, waste of time.
Chris G3SJJ
Callum M0MCX wrote:
>>>> I find this thread (and its CDXC version) almost mindboggling....
>>>>
>
> Awe, get a grip Dave :) There's only a couple of messages in it!
>
> Bottom line: My log was bounced and I was asked to correct it. I declined.
> Once submitted, the gate's open. Horse gone etc. etc. Life's too short to go
> around correcting logs.
>
> Unedited log submission attached (end of each line).
>
> 003 orkney arc
> 008 Newbury Member
> 019 Club - Lichfield - Club
> 022 Club - Worthing Amataur Club
> 023 Newbury CLub Station
> 024 Member - Worthing & DARC
> 018 Club - Hadley Wood Contest Grpo
> 027 Member SHirehampton QRC
> 026 Membeer Newbury
> 038 Member - Horsham
> 032 Club - Harwich
> 026 Club - Verulam
> 030 Club - Shirehampton
> 021 Member Horsham ARC
> 033 Member - Horsham
> 012 Member Wythall
> 008 Member - Chiltern DX Club
> 034 Member - Hadley Wood
> 059 Member - Leicester RS
> 045 Member - Hadley Wood CG
> 084 Club - North Wakefield RC
> 049 Club - Sudbury & DRA
> 070 Club - Martlesham DX&CG
> 040 Club - Dragon ARC
> 034 Club - Bittern DX Group
> 056 Club - Loughborouch Dist ARC
> 076 Club - Swansea ARS
> 014 Member Wythall
> 061 Club - Stevenage Club ARS
> 113 CLUB - Jersey ARS
> 056 Club - Northampton RC
> 059 Member - Horsham ARC
> 091 Club - Telford ARS
> 071 Club - Brickfield
> 101 Member - Hadley Wood CG
> 068 Member - Horsham ARC
> 051 Member - Colchester
> 061 Member - Shirthampton ARC
> 065 Member - Horsham
> 025 Member - Royal Airforce Waddington
> 002 Member - Royal Signals ARS
> 060 Member - Shirehampton ARC
> 034 Member - Cheltenham ARS
> 045 Member - Wythall
> 052 Member - Newbury ARS
> 048 Club - Newquay ARS
>
> C.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Sergeant [mailto:dave at davesergeant.com]
> Sent: 05 January 2007 07:19
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 160m Club Calls
>
> On 4 Jan 2007 at 22:35, Callum M0MCX wrote:
>
>
>> Sorry to bring this old chestnut up again, it's just that someone has
>> recently asked in the CDXC Yahoo reflector about getting in touch with
>> Reading Radio Club. I did a search on Google just to be inquisitive
>> and I noticed that there's a Reading Radio Club -AND- a Reading and
>> District Amateur Radio Club.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now I realise why my contest log wasn't "accurate enough" for
>> scrutinizers after its submission for the Club Calls contest. I had
>> marked too many of my READING club entries, "READING" when in fact I
>> should have been more specific (eg Radio Club or DARC).
>>
>>
>>
>> It's the first time I entered that contest - with a compromise
>> "estate" antenna (in other words, bloody difficult conditions!) and
>> now the penny has really dropped; the aims of the contest -vs- the
>> difficulty of 160m -vs- the pedantically scrutinised exchange = I'll
>> not be entering that one again.
>>
>
> I find this thread (and its CDXC version) almost mindboggling....
>
> As far as the contest is concerned, you are supposed to write down
> what the station sent you. If he just sent 'Reading' that is what you
> put. If he said 'Reading and District Amateur Radio Club QRP Section'
> you are supposed to write that all down letter for letter... I
> suspect the adjudicator has a bit of common sense though...
>
> There are countless ways of finding the contact for any RSGB club.
> RadCom Club News where they always appear, The RSGB website, even our
> Bracknell club site has a direct link. Or two seconds with Google. In
> case you haven't found it yet:
>
> http://www.radarc.org/Committee.htm has the full committee and the
> secretary is G3NGX with an email link.
>
> Gosh I thought amateur radio was getting easier...
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
>
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