[UK-CONTEST] Was NFD originally an emergency capability test?

[Ian White GM3SEK]

GM3YEH wrote:
>
>It seems possible that GM2BUD might have been right after all.  I 
>wonder if by 1947 some UK radio amateurs had met US radio amateurs in 
>the armed forces during WWII and realised that NFD being used as an 
>emergency capability test would be a good idea...and adopted it in 1947?
>

The main reason would have been much bigger and closer: wartime 
attitudes continued for many years after 1945. But that is a side-issue, 
because this whole "emergency" idea is irrelevant.

CW or SSB field day stations have NOTHING in common with emergency comms 
systems as they exist in the UK today - wrong frequencies, wrong modes, 
wrong procedures, wrong training and experience, and no concept of 
'user services'.

As contesters we have every right to be proud of what we do, but let's 
stop pretending that we can prance into an emergency and save the 
nation!

Think of field days as what they are - simply CONTESTS. Maybe then we 
can decide how we want our filed days to be.


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73 from Ian GM3SEK
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