[UK-CONTEST] 80m cc

[Peter Hobbs]

I don't think AFS is a particularly good example to follow.  The 
objective of the 80m CCs was to encourage NEW entrants and to use the 
club scene to achieve this.   This objective has been met very 
successfully, thanks to Dave and Justin's imaginative rules.  If we were 
to limit participation by area or team size, the main impact would be to 
reduce the overall entry, something none of us want.

We are then left with how to deal with those "clubs" who may try to 
scavenge members from elsewhere, something which I'm sure was never 
intended but which is not easy to control, without a lot of work on the 
part of the contest adjudicators.   Again, the generally very prompt 
results we are happy to see assume that entrants can generally be taken 
at face value, without the need for a lot of manual verification and 
cross-checking.  I would suggest that peer pressure (including this 
forum) will ultimately be sufficient to keep team composition within the 
"spirit" of the event.

73
Peter G3LET