[UK-CONTEST] VHF NFD results table

[Peter Tribe]

At 20:00 23/09/2011, you wrote:
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>    1. VHF NFD - things seem to have changed somewhat....?
>       (philhss at tpg.com.au)
>    2. Re: VHF NFD - things seem to have changed somewhat....?
>       (Pete Lindsay)
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>Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:37:12 +1000
>From: philhss at tpg.com.au
>Subject: [UK-CONTEST] VHF NFD - things seem to have changed
>         somewhat....?
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>OK, I admit it. I've been out of the UK for some time now.
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>But, I still try my best to stay in touch and get to know what's 
>going on in Blighty.
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>The VHF FD Results raised an ex-pat eyebrow however. Why would a 
>non-UK group be listed in the
>tables? An impressive score, but not wholly relevant to the contest 
>as they're not permitted to
>enter as I recall? Or has something changed in my absence?  8-)
>
>Do these (virtual) winners also get band leader and/or winner certificates?
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>73,
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>Phil Smeaton
>G0HSS / VK4BAA / VK4KW
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Phil - As an entrant to VHF NFD I entirely agree with your comments. 
It seems pointless to me to include overseas scores in the results 
table, particularly when they award themselves more points on each 
band that legitimate entires can claim and they are legally allowed 
to use two and a half times the power of UK entries.
The tables would look a right mess if all the French, German, Dutch 
and Belgium groups sent in their scores.
I am delighted that people want to take part in a UK contest and if 
you want to go to Irelend why not? The more the merrier. But frankly 
their scores are only useful as a checklog and distort the tables for 
the proper entries. The simplest solution would be to have a separate 
list for foreign entries.
The other area that needs addressing is the inequity between the 
scoring for the different bands. If you stay up all night on 23 cms 
you might make 80 contacts for a maximum of 1000 pts whereas you can 
get the same score for 6 hours' operating on 4m. Shurely somthing wrong ere!

73 all Peter Tribe  G0VVE