[UK-CONTEST] Club Calls

[Rob - G4LMW]

Crikey Paul (and others)

Club Calls is a relaxed contest and from what I heard, full club names were 
being exchanged and everyone was having a great time (affirmed by the 
soapboxes submitted so far). Some clubs put on 2 stations as they had too 
many wanting to have a go. Great stuff, I say.

It isn't CQWW... it is RSGB Club Calls... a chance to give inexperienced ops 
a "bash" at using the mic in a slow-rate contest. It is nice to hear a 
laboured "...and I am a member of the Newbury and District Amateur Radio 
Club" (even if he doesn't know that he is actually a member of the "Newbury 
and District Amateur Radio Society"!). If we turn it into "59 Member NAD06", 
it'll spoil it.

The list is simply there as a workaround due to the shortcomings of certain 
logging packages. Nothing more.

Can we put this to bed now?

73, Rob
G4LMW
http://www.G4LMW.co.uk



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul O'Kane" <pokane at ei5di.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Club Calls


> On 16/11/2010 20:47, Rob - G4LMW wrote:
>
>> However, the 10 "wrong" clubs are all derived from the logs of the ENTRY
>> stations of previous year's logs (in other words, what was SENT). We were
>> only interested in what was SENT, and not necessarily the "correct" name 
>> of
>> the club.
>
> You can't have it both ways.  Either you insist on
> the full (correct) name being sent, as per the rules,
> or you don't.
>
> It seems that you don't.  Therefore, what is to stop
> entrants sending only the abbreviated club name or,
> even better, any unique identifier of their choice?
>
> Rules that are ill-defined, or cannot be enforced,
> are no better than recommendations.
>
> A good option for regaining control might be to assign
> a unique identifier to each club - 4, 5 or 6 characters,
> whatever it takes.
>
> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
>
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