[UK-CONTEST] Newbie Contesters

[Tom Wylie]

Here here - I second that view


73 de Tom
GM4FDM



Martin Snow wrote:
>
>
>
> By the ‘eck, aren’t we lucky!
>
> A good burst of GB7HQ last weekend and everybody is coming
> out of the woodwork telling all how we should encourage newbies to partake of
> contesting!
>
> OK Richard, I thought we were talking HF here, but thanks
> anyway.
>
> I may have an old, and personal, c/s but I’m quite new to
> this contesting business. I’ve only been doing AFS for about 5 or 6 years,
> gradually coming into the more complex contests recently. I suspect this is only
> because I like CW and we are short on CW ops round here.
>
> A lot of very good points have been made by our most
> experienced contesters. Only one person hit the nail on the head, in my view.
>
> Taking the simple approach, and that of a complete newbie.
> He/she has not enough knowledge & experience to have bought the right
> complex equipment to enter the special contests suggested. The RSGB CCs were
> designed to replace the QRS Cumulatives, and are the least complicated of the
> present contests on offer.  But the
> present system imposes an immediate limitation on a complete newbie. This is
> the Cabrillo file entry.  Even if the
> newbie has the wit to find out what a Cabrillo file is, he/she needs a computer
> to log.
>
> If, it is as you are all saying – that you want to encourage
> the newest and most basic Fundamental/Intermediate licensee to join in the
> contesting fray, then he/she will have only the most basic equipment (maybe
> only home-brewed TX & Rx [ideally ! ]) and quite possibly not computer
> logging.
>
> I suggest that the present contests are fine. But a new
> section be added on to the CCs, whereby the newbies can enter a basic paper log,
> with perhaps only 5 QSOs therein, and for which he/she receives a certificate
> to show that he/she has entered a contest!
>
> A certificate dropping, unexpectedly, on the door-mat will
> do more to boost the morale and confidence than anything else. It doesn’t even
> have to be a certificate, a simple letter, welcoming the entrant to the world
> of contesting would do.
>
> When dealing with newbies, the old adage applies – KISS –
> Keep It Simple Stupid!
>
> One point I would make though, is that I think the simplest
> of contests, the CCs, are being hi-jacked by the ‘serious’ contesters. There
> are some thumping great signals there, and some very fast CW!  I hope the ‘serious’ guys will forgive me for
> suggesting that the CCs need to be kept as the simplest of contests, to fulfil
> your wish, to encourage new and unsophisticated contesters upcoming.
>
> 73 de Martin, gw3prl. Anglesey.  (EU124 ex!)
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