[UK-CONTEST] AFS 2008

[Peter Hobbs]

More or less what I thought Dave.  Nobody has asked the body of clubs what
they prefer.  If they had of course there would be no argument.

73, Peter G3LET

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Sharred" <dave at g3nkc.orangehome.co.uk>
To: "Peter Hobbs" <peter at tilgate.co.uk>; "UK Contest reflector" 
<uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] AFS 2008


>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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