[UK-CONTEST] Club Distance Rules

[David]

35Km or just over 21 miles from where our club is based (St Albans) has a
population coverage of many millions as central London is just 20 miles
away. A club meeting in a seaside town in Cumbria will have a population
coverage of a few tens of thousands at the most. This is a very asymmetric
situation.

I can understand the desire for a distance rule as it stops a contest only
club with members across the whole of the UK against a general local (for
that locality) club with contesting being just one of many other club
activities. The contest club being able to exploit more propagation
opportunities than a local generalist club. May be the answer is not to have
a hard and fast distance rule but just state that club members must be from
the locality of the club meeting place and locality being appropriate to the
geography of the locality. This would then allow a Cumbrian club to cover
the whole county and may be beyond while a club in London may only cover a
few boroughs. Any club entry blatantly made up of non-local members for the
designated meeting place would then be disqualified.


73 David G3YYD