[UK-CONTEST] BERU 2007 - GM3WOJ etc...

[G3SJJ]

Depends where you want to put your emphasis, Pete and how much support 
you want to give to UK stations. There is definitely a 12 hour section 
and you can choose whether you want to go Open or Restricted.

Again it depends on whether you want to accept that the rules are biased 
against the UK. If you accept that then you would want to try and even 
up the balance.

I fully agree with you that making 12 hour into UK only would affect 
some non-UK participants, but this has to be balanced against the 
discriminatory
effect in the UK of the existing rules.

All I am asking from this year's event is that greater prominence is 
given to UK entrants that have opted for 12 hours, rather than playing 
it down.

Then for the future for there to be an acceptance, and this appears to 
be the sticking point, that the rules are discriminatory against the UK 
and for that, at last, to be addressed. My guess, as ever in previous 
years, is this won't happen.

(Note for SXW - I promise not to mention Beloo at FN!!!)

Chris G3SJJ



Peter Hobbs wrote:
>> My interpretation of the rules is that there is a 24 hour section and a
>> 12 section. Within that, and I am not sure why, is Open and Restricted.
>>     
>
>   
>> 12 Hour UK section  . . .
>>     
>
> Struggling a bit with your interpretation here, Chris.  The 12 hour format 
> is popular all over, as seen from recent entries and for all sorts of 
> reasons.  If you restrict recognition of it to the UK, it's not going to do 
> anything for the overseas entry.
>
> Anyway this is all rather academic, because there is no longer a section for 
> 12 hour operation; there are now Open, Restricted (LP with single element 
> antenna) and Multi-op Sections, within the first two of which 12 hour 
> entrants are identified.  This change was made after a lot of  discussion in 
> the HFCC and history likes to give new arrangements several years to bed in. 
> That doesn't stop the adjudicator listing all the 12 hour entrants in a 
> separate table, outside the main listings (as happened last year for the 
> JD), but to do that comprehensively, under UK, Overseas, Open and Restricted 
> headings - no, too much.
>
> But in my view, initiatives such as the team competition and travel awards 
> are far more valuable in generating activity than any combination of 
> sections or prizes.  What people want is more stuff, more exciting stuff to 
> work.  Whether they want to spend 12 or 24 hours doing that is really up to 
> individual taste.
>
>   
>> Also, very
>> few of us are really that bothered about seeing a full 24 hours prop
>>     
>
> Not sure who all these people are who are not that bothered, Chris.  If I 
> happen to prefer 12 hours, I need to decide on the hoof which 12 they are 
> and the rules here give me that flexibility.
>
>   
>> we might be
>> forced to be slicker and need to send CC so as not too waste too much 
>> time!
>>     
>
> I think I only heard one station calling CC - just doesn't have the same 
> ring to it - might as well call CQ test which is even shorter.  I just hope 
> some PC (read interfering) type doesn't add "appropriate guidance" in this 
> area to the rules.  Not so unlikely as you may think - a few years back, I 
> kid you not, the following appeared: "all entrants must ensure their 
> transmitted signal is of good signal quality.  Any station receiving 
> frequent or regular signal reports of T8 or less will be liable to 
> disqualification"  Where shall we put the boot in first, chaps? . . .
>
> 73, Peter G3LET
>
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