[UK-CONTEST] Vargarda Antennas & Domineering VHF Contest Stations

[DAVID BUTLER]

From: Gavin Stirling <gm0wdd at yahoo.com>
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Sent: Friday, 8 May, 2009 9:26:53 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Vargarda Antennas & Domineering VHF Contest Stations

Gavin GM0WDD  said ....


Surely you enter a competition to win, no other reason. If the winner is already decided before the contest has started purely down to his geographic location then what is the point of entering? ------




David G4ASR replies ....


No - that is incorrect.  

Many stations 'enter' contests just to pick up new countries, locator squares, counties, postcodes.

Indeed I often advocate this in my PW VHF DXER column (which incidentally is 20-years old next month!).  

Contests are NOT necessarily just for winning - or indeed for entering in a formal way.

They are a much needed way of increasing activity on the VHF/UHF/Microwave bands.

And that is the real reason why they are so important - and why the rules should (maybe) be pitched more at 
increasing activity rather than the competitive aspects.

73 David G4ASR
VHF Manager, RSGB