[UK-CONTEST] BERU - HQ stations

[Peter Hobbs]

Frank

A determined attempt WAS made to deliver a second VE team this year, but 
didn't quite make it.  It's a tough one, because all the most experienced 
guys are already spoken for.  Bit like cricket really  . . .

73, Peter G3LET

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Hunt" <zl2br at ihug.co.nz>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] BERU - HQ stations


> 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.
>
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