[UK-CONTEST] Club Distance Rules

[CHRIS COLCLOUGH]

As a member of a couple of clubs, none of them local to myself or fall within this rule, I now feel I cannot enter these contests. I have entered in the past as a member of Strumble group, a closed club of friends who base ourselves in West Wales (see website) but are spread over the UK, just for fun as I know we will not win the contest series simply for the fact that we are a small group. Maybe it needs the rule changing to be a small number of teams within the bigger clubs, with all team members named before the start - and I mean before the 1st contest - and their scores only can go to the overall score. make this a maximum of 10 members to cover any holidays/mode issues/WAR (Wives Against Radio) department, as we know not all 10 will get on the air for all legs. 


My tuppenceworth and will not see you in 2012 due to this rule change.

Happy New Year all, and may the propagation gods be favourable to us all!

 
Chris Colclough
G1VDP

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________________________________
 From: David <g3yyd at btinternet.com>
To: "UK-Contest at contesting. com" <UK-Contest at contesting.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, 28 December 2011, 12:19
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Club Distance Rules
 
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

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