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

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

I believe it was suggested that although any individual team could not have more than 5 members, there could be up to 5 teams per club (or even any number). The best score from any one team being taken. I think the intention being to limit clubs winning by recruiting 10s of ops from around the UK and producing a large entry.

I don't really have anything positive or negative to put in here, we are a small club, with very few taking part in CC, one or two of those are 'country' members, they used to live in Bracknell, but have moved away, but still pay dues and are bonafide members of the club, which does have a permanent and physical address as a meeting place. We will need to enter in the general category. I don't suppose we'll win, we never have, even if we were all in Bracknell, large antennas aren’t really a possibility, we will never be a big gun.
This is done for fun and to better ourselves.

73 de M0XDF

On 30 Dec 2011, at 11:47, Jonathan Towns wrote:

> The issue here is that every time you change the rules you have new winners
> and losers.
> I am against a limitation on the numbers in a team as I see the purpose of
> the 80m CC as to increase the number of contesters. In our club (Norfolk
> ARC) we have been successful in encouraging more people to take part due
> to hard work by some of our best contesters in running training sessions.
> We have to remember that it is a voluntary activity and is meant to be fun!
> Jonathan
> M1ADX