[UK-CONTEST] G0TZZ queries

[Chris G3SVL]

At 14:19 24/01/2011, Chris Rolinson G7DDN wrote:
>That the RSGB introduce some kind of Foundation-based contest, where 
>ONLY foundation licence holders can run - that should encourage some 
>new blood to try contesting out without getting "swamped" with 400w+ 
>signals. After all Foundation license holders are usually only just 
>getting over being mike-shy when they come on air...

Chris,

The current top contesters were not born contesters - they started as 
'mike-shy' and 'key-shy' in just the same way as today's new 
licensees.  Indeed until the introduction of the new license format 
there was no practical element to the exam (other than the morse 
test) at all.  So we were literally thrown in at the deep end the day 
our license arrived.

And we learnt our skills on-air by competing against the then great 
contesters until we earned our place higher up the table.  I don't 
see what is different today.  And as for '... they can actually 
ACHIEVE something within a given event' - how about improving 
themselves in each contest - that's what I'm still trying to do 46 years on!

There is no shame in appearing down the bottom of the results table - 
and great satisfaction if you move up every contest.

73 Chris, G3SVL