[UK-CONTEST] 80m CCs : tracking your club\'s activity (typocorrected!)

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Not contrary to mine, but then I'm biased!
Maybe 4 entrants per club is a little low, I think there are 6 of us  
who regularly work UKAC 145MHz and I would guess as many for HF might  
I some time be on. I join in with HF (SSB at present) if I'm available.

Dave, by team, did you mean club or teams in a club, because if it's  
teams in a club, clubs just put on more teams!
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73 de M0XDF, Bracknell ARC

On 13 Aug 2009, at 10:44, Dave Sergeant wrote:

> On 13 Aug 2009 at 10:03, dave at g4buo.com wrote:
>
>> Perhaps we could hear some reactions from members of other clubs. Do
>> they think it is ok for Three As (and other contest clubs) to  
>> recruit in
>> this way?
>
> Well as one of the little sprats.....
>
> I must say I have been disheartened by the negative response to Dave's
> comments and similarly I was a bit shocked by 3A's recruitment drive.
> Maybe it is per se a shortcoming in the CC's format in that there is  
> no
> limit on the number of entrants from a club so that inevitably those
> clubs who can put on many stations are always going to be way ahead of
> others. A change to the AFS format of 4 entrants per team would  
> largely
> solve this.
>
> Here in Bracknell we have very few active CW ops and even attempts to
> get folks interested in the SSB legs has been pretty unsuccessful. A
> combination of most of our members being unable to put up any
> respectable size antennas and general lack of interest in hf contests.
> We do have a number of 'country members', those who came along to
> meetings regularly while they lived in Bracknell and wish to maintain
> their support for the club. One of those, not having joined a new  
> local
> club, regularly supports us in CC, but is significantly more than 50
> miles away. I think it is important to continue to allow such members
> to enter CC, but I would draw the line at bringing people in who have
> no direct affiliation with a club and are joining in solely to take
> part in these events. Ex-University people is also a grey area - I
> suppose I could set myself up with a team of other friends as the
> 'University of Southampton' team, even though G3KMI and the club no
> longer exists and it is nearly 40 years since I and my friends left.
> You have to be reasonable.
>
> So I would strongly suggest, maybe for 2010, that teams are limited to
> 4 members max, fully paid up (not honorary) members of that club, and
> that there is no 50 mile rule.
>
> But I guess my views are contrary to many on this reflector..