[UK-CONTEST] AFS 2008

[Peter Hobbs]

> CW AFS was always on a Sunday (well, once it moved from 160m anyway) but
> when we added the Phone contest it was felt that Saturday was a better
> choice, to minimise QRM to Sunday afternoon nets.

As far as I know (which is not a lot about 80 phone I admit) the vast 
majority of  Sunday nets are in the morning.  Saturday afternoon is grossly 
inconvenient for all sorts of reasons and I suspect this applies  to most 
people with any sort of life.

> Next year's calendar will be out soon, and one feature is a change to
> the AFS rules so that teams are composed of 4 operators both for CW and
> phone.

This is really bad news Dave.  I hate to think about who might have lobbied 
for this.  As far as I can recall no-one has suggested it in their soapbox 
comments.  I thought the phone section was initially limited to 4 operators 
because of uncertainty about the level of entry and it has just stuck over 
the years as a result of inertia.  This is playing into the hands of the 
small specialist contest groups at the expense of the regional clubs, for 
whom the event was conceived.

73, Peter G3LET