[UK-CONTEST] HFCC

[Peter Bowyer]

2010/1/15 Ken Chandler <g0orh at sky.com>:
> This however will means that to stay on a level.....ish  par, (given
> that the CC's are not governed by distance of it's contest members)
> then we must also start recruiting both in UK and in Europe.

. Or organise a 'personal best' table within your Club's entry to the
CCs, with intra-club rivalry replacing aspirations to be top of the
club table. Or... Or...

Oh, and since your Club can't win the Multi/Multi section of CQWW with
its limited resources, better campaign for the rules to be changed so
that you can. Those dratted Caribbeans in Zone 9 have had it their own
way for too long, with their big antennas and proximity to the
continental US, why can't the rules favour Zone 14 and dipoles? We
demand parity with Aruba!

And while you're at it, the Oceania contest is always won by people in
the Southern Hemisphere.... something should be done! Write to the
Daily Mail!

For goodness sake, if coming at the top of the table is so important,
choose a contest which is more suitable to your resources. Its not as
though there's a shortage.

> This is not what my club wants to do as we operate as a club in that
> all it's members actively operate in rsgb contests within 50 miles of
> it's meeting place.

Then AFS is the contest for you. My club doesn't have that advantage,
and consequently doesn't do well in AFS - but it doesn't stop us
having a good try, and you don't hear us bleating about how unfair it
is.

> I will therefore be pressing my chairman to authorise a contest
> membership drive as other groups are doing.

A more idiotic and ridiculous reaction would be hard to conceive. I
hope your Chairman treats it with the contempt it clearly deserves.

Peter G4MJS

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