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

[g3ory at lineone.net]

Hi David,

You said:

>Many international contests have separate sections that cover 
assisted 
>and unassisted operation.

which is perfectly true. Did you notice that 
a lot of the eastern European countries seem to be dropping the 'single 
op unassisted' category.  This might have something to do with the 
impossibility of confirming compliance with the rules. Better this 
pragmatic approach perhaps.

NFD does have inspections of course but to ensure compliance you need 
inspectors who are fully conversant with the latest developments.  I 
suspect it is hard enough to find inspectors let alone find guys who 
would know an SDR-IQ if they saw one.



73 Bob

GORY







>----Original Message----

>From: david at honeyfamily.org.uk

>Date: 07/06/2011 17:27 

>To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>

>Subj: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Was NFD originally an emergency capability 
test?

>

>Many international contests have separate sections that cover 
assisted 

>and unassisted operation. Using RBN, or a skimmer, or the cluster, 

>effectively makes it an assisted operation. I think the intent of 
the 

>restricted and (even more so) qrp sections were to enable clubs to 
put 

>together a simple station that did not rely upon such assisted 

>operation. If assisted operation is allowed in these sections, then 

>effectively it requires that stations use that capability in order to 
be 

>competitive. I think that would be a shame. I have no objection to 
the 

>open section using such capabilities. This is on the basis that an 

>entrant will already be planning a much larger operation and 
presumably 

>will have the resources to do so. But I would prefer that 

>RBN/skimmer/cluster use was not allowed in the qrp and probably 

>restricted sections.

>

>To pick up a point that Dave G3YMC made, I think the contest 
committee 

>should consider whether qrp should mean 5W rather than 10W. 
Currently, 

>stations using 10W for the NFD entry cannot enter in the QRP section 
for 

>DARC, for example, since they define QRP as 5W. Since most of the 

>sections we work in the QRP section are taking part in Germany, 

>Netherlands, Belgium and so on, there is something to be said on using 
a 

>harmonised power limit for QRP sections.

>

>Kind regards,

>David M0DHO

>

>

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