[UK-CONTEST] Short calls - clubs from 2011

[Dave Sergeant]

On 25 Feb 2010 at 13:14, Michael Ruttenberg wrote:

> 1. If a club were to enter 5 events in 2010 under their existing
> callsign and score more than 1/3 in them, but the results don't get
> published until some time in 2011 e.g. CQ events), that's not fair to
> lose the callsign while waiting for results. This extension for clubs is
> too drastic a timeframe and should be 2012 or 2013, not the start of
> 2011.
> 
> 2. If a callsign were to be used in a section of a contest such as CQWW
> in a sepecifric section, is the "leader" score the leader overall or the
> leader for theat section? e.g. say you only did a single-band entry, you
> won't get 1/3 of the score of a multi-multi team. That too is harsh to
> say you don't get your 1 out of 5 points qualification.

Now having read the terms on the application form, I am even more 
confused. For those who haven't seen it, its says:

"(e) Individual licensees or club licensees will be expected to provide 
evidence of having entered at least 5 of the contests listed in a) 
above within the last 3 years and having achieved at least one third of 
the number of contacts as the leader in the appropriate table. However, 
in a contest where the licensee achieves more than one half of the 
number of contacts as the leader, (rather than one third), this contest 
will count as two contests towards the requirement to have entered five 
contests within the last three years. The criteria in this paragraph 
will not apply to Clubs until after 31 December  2010. "

It is not clear whether the 'appropriate table' refers to UK entrants 
only, a particular section in which you entered, or whatever. I have 
certainly entered more than 5 of the listed HF contests in the past 3 
years and as it happens won the QRP section for G land in some of them. 
Therefore I might qualify under those terms if you liberally interpret 
them. But the number of UK clubs entering the multi-multi sections of 
say CQWW will be well down the table compared with the scores of the 
big dx-peditions.

A good step by Ofcom, sure, but the terms are just a bit too 
restrictive.

Not that I am considering one for G3YMC for QRP contests, and my club 
G4BRA certainly doesn't qualify under these terms....

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com