[UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 88, Issue 45 Re 80m CC's PSK etc

[Stuart M0RXX]

Andy and Chris
In the CC Clubs are normally like mined locals who meet regually, to  
have members all over the country and Europe pushes the rules a bit I  
would think. Then there is advertising for members this has to prove  
that it is not a "local club" as most of us would describe. There  
again they do well in other Contests. As well as help the RSGB on  
committees, they are after all like the rest of us radio amateurs  
interested in the hobby but it is not all about winning everything  
going. If you win three years you cannot win the following year you  
can enter but it would be as a check log, just a thought.

73
Stuart Southern.
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First Aid Saves Lives.
My Call Sign: M0RXX
Radio Amateur.

On 29 Apr 2010, at 09:30, "Andy P Hewitt"  
<andyphewitt at btopenworld.com> wrote:

> Chris,
>
> You raise a problem which concerns me as Chairman of the "Newbury &  
> Dist
> ARS". We have around 80 members of which only around 15 or so take  
> part in
> the HFCC contests. Those 15 or so are relatively keen contesters,  
> but we are
> all concentrated generally within 30 miles or so of Newbury in central
> southern England. We are a genuine club, meeting regularly once a  
> month in a
> local hostelry and with regular club nets and other get togethers.
>
> Over the 7 months of the HFCC contests propagation conditions vary
> considerably and this favours groups with participants spread across  
> the
> country, and maybe, even outside the UK. We do very well and, I  
> think, we
> have always been in the top three of the contest, but always a  
> bridesmaid
> never a bride. Try as we might we stand almost no chance of getting  
> the top
> slot. We have members who, from time to time, come top in the  
> individual
> events, and they find it frustrating that we cannot win the annual  
> event as
> a club.
> 73
> Andy G3SVD
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Christopher  
> Soames
> Sent: 29 April 2010 07:37
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 88,Issue 45 Re 80m  
> CC's PSK
> etc
>
>
>
> On 28/04/2010 20:00, uk-contest-request at contesting.com wrote:
>> Re 80m CC's PSK etc
>
> Surely the whole idea is to get club members taking part in a club
> championship.
> If you only have 5 members then only 5 members can enter on your  
> behalf,
> if you have 250 members then the obvious applies.
> However members are still competing which means they are using the
> bands, which I assume is part of the exercise.
> The problem from my eyes and yes I will raise it again is what is a
> club? How does the RSGB recognise a club?
> What is a contest group? and how can a contest group enter a club
> championship?
>
> Lets face it a dedicated contest group residing all over the UK or  
> even
> Europe is surely not in the spirit of a Club Championship.
> I know this has been mentioned more than once but I assume nothing
> happens because the contest committee members are probably members  
> of a
> contest group trying its hardest from all over the UK and/or Europe to
> win a CLUB Championship.
>
> I could be wrong!!!
>
> Ok all you experts put me right where you feel you need to. Perhaps  
> I am
> being a Bigot??
>
> -- 
> Regards from
>
> Chris Soames
> G0TZZ
> email :-
> semaos at semaos.plus.com
> www.norfolkamateurradio.org
>
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