[UK-CONTEST] Unnecessary 80m CC rule tweaking?

[Danny Higgins]

It also seems odd that some people can represent their "local" club in AFS,
but not in the club contests.  If you want to take part in the club contests
but are more than 35km from your meeting place, then you may have to join
another club and compete against your AFS team mates.  A common distance
rule is desirable, or a rule that says you can only compete for one of the 4
or 5 nearest clubs to your QTH, which evens out the rural aspect a bit.

Danny, G3XVR

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ian Trusson
Sent: 28 December 2011 18:56
To: 'G4LMW'; 'UK Contest'
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Unnecessary 80m CC rule tweaking?

Rob

As per your point (1), it seems that local clubs who currently have members
outside the 35km limit will be forced to enter the general section and not
the local section. Otherwise their members outside the 35km limit will not
be able to participate and those members and their fellow members would be
very aggrieved. Surely a local club in this situation would not enter the
local section if that resulted in the exclusion of some of their members.
They would have to join the general section and compete against the contest
groups and regional groups so the proposed new 35km rule fails to give the
effect envisaged by the contest committee. I would have thought a 50 mile
rule as per AFS would have been more inclusive and be more likely to give
the desired effect.

73
Ian G3RVM


> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:uk-contest- 
> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of G4LMW
> Sent: 28 December 2011 17:45
> To: UK Contest
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Unnecessary 80m CC rule tweaking?
> 
> Could I highlight a couple of points that seem to have been lost in 
> the
"noise".....
> 
> 1. No-one has been excluded from participating. If you enter your Club 
> in
the
> "General" section, you will be taking part EXACTLY the same as you 
> were
last year,
> with no distance limit.
> 
> 2. The distance limit is 35km, or your nearest Club (whichever is
greater).
> If your most local club is 50km away, you are fine.
> 
> Regards
> Rob, G4LMW
> 
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