[UK-CONTEST] Encouraging Contesting

[Richard Newstead]

A recurring theme in this group is "how to encourage contesting?". Perhaps  
one way is to improve the way in which contests are reported in the UK? I  
have been reading the ARRL's reports on a minority contest recently and  
have been impressed by the inspirational quality of the writing.

Check out:

http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/99/10ghz.pdf

and

http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2004/10GHz.pdf (change year to pick  
up more recent commentaries - they are all good)

These are well-written, inspirational pieces, carefully designed to  
encourage contesting. I can recall nothing of similar quality here in the  
UK.

Amateur radio should be exciting, and contesting should be especially so -  
and yet so many contest reports here are dull, often poorly written,  
factual accounts.

How could we raise the standards?

73

Richard
G3CWI