[UK-CONTEST] BERU - HQ stations

[Frank Hunt]

I'm not convinced that we need any HQ stations at all in the Beru, 
never mind a whole heap more!

I don't believe that having more HQ stations active will result in 
increased interest and activity in the contest. The good general 
promotional work that G3PJT and others have been doing and the 
introduction of the team competition have born fruit so why not 
continue in the same manner?

Taking into consideration the number of G and VE stations who are 
active in this contest compared with the rest of the Commonwealth, I 
find it hard to understand why there have not been multiple G and VE 
teams.

The worse case scenario of having say 25 or more unique bonus point 
HQ stations, (although I will admit it's extremely unlikely to happen 
in the Beru), is a smaller scale version of the all out big gang 
warfare that takes place between multi-multi European stations in the 
IARU contest. Initially in this particular contest only IARU Zones 
were multipliers. Then the rules were changed and HQ stations were 
given unique multiplier status and now the number of HQ station 
unique mults exceeds the number of Zone mults. In my opinion and a 
few others, this contest has gone down hill as a result.

73, Frank ZL2BR

On 19 Mar 2009 at 0:00, gm4fam at tiscali.co.uk wrote:

> 100% agree with the proposal of an HQ station in each UK DXCC; 
> otherwise the rules for this unique event are fine as they are.
> 
> 73 Cris
> GM4FAM
> 
> >As the operator of one of the Canadian HQ stations, I have to agree. 
> It does
> >seem logical for the UK to be able to field a HQ station for each 
> prefix
> >region just as we, and other countries, are.
> >
> >I would also like to put forward a proposal to allow a country's HQ 
> stations
> >to form a team or teams in order to compete amongst themselves. More
> >internal competition might be fun.