[UK-CONTEST] Some strange developments

[Andy GD0TEP]

Chris, following on from your points...

Item 4 should then be: 

There's now a 'fixed section' in the only VHF field day contest of the year,
the only contest aimed specifically at portable stations. Bonkers or what...

73 Andy
http://www.gd0tep.com

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Chris Tran GM3WOJ
Sent: 10 July 2009 09:34
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Some strange developments

Hello UK-contesters

Just when you thought these interesting threads had stopped....

I've been away from the UK for 8 months and there seem to have been some
strange developments in that time - here is my take on some of these
recently-discussed issues :

1. You can confirm QSO data via a chatroom .... hmmm ... I used ON4KST in
its early days on 6m and one of the conventions was that it was not used for
this purpose - it was intended as a discussion forum (in real time rather
than like an e-mail reflector) about all issues related to 50MHz and as far
as I remember that was the way it was used. Using a chatroom to solicit QSOs
or confirm QSO information seems like a 'prop' for poor stations or
operators to me....

2.  New CQ WW Xtreme category ....hmmm.... we are finding it impossible to
convincingly police existing categories, so let's create a new category and
hope that the cheats migrate there. A cynical view, but perhaps not so far
from the truth ?

3.  You can enter the contest but only if you don't call 'CQ' ....hmmm....

73
Chris
GM3WOJ/ZL1CT

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