[UK-CONTEST] AFS 2008

[Dave Sharred]

I think your assumptions are wrong Peter

For the CW events; quite a few people I speak to realised that it is getting
more difficult in CW events to field teams of 5; so I certainly lobbied the
Committee for parity with the SSB event.

The SSB event (I think!) was a great success; and has more entrants.

So, what the Committee have done, is reduced the size of the CW team to 4;
and increased the SSB team size to 4 from 3;   and they also have parity
between the events.

I think the Committee should be thanked for listening to opinion !

73

Dave
G3NKC


-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Peter Hobbs
Sent: 22 November 2007 19:10
To: UK Contest reflector; Dave Lawley
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] AFS 2008




> 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

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