[UK-CONTEST] NFD and DARC Field Days !

[David]

Having just read the DARC Field day rules, they are to me a model of
simplicity yet allow everyone to enter. I can why Nigel prefers to being a
DARC entrant rather than a RSGB one. I think that last sentence probably
says it all. MM for IOTA please.

73 David

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Nigel G3TXF
Sent: 13 April 2012 14:29
To: UK Contest Reflector
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] NFD and DARC Field Days !

Hello UK Contesters,

At G*0AAA/p we've always sent our "NFD" log to DARC to show willing and to
be listed in their results (with the entirely different scoring system).
Perhaps this year we should enter the DARC Field Day as our main entry and
just submit an "NFD checklog only" to what appears to be a mildly
dysfunctional Contest Committee.

73 - Nigel G3TXF

 

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of G3WVG
Sent: 13 April 2012 09:47
To: qrz at dxdx.co.uk
Cc: uk-contest at contesting.com; QUENTIN COLLIER
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] HF CW Field Day

I absolutely agree with John G4IRN.. This really does seem like pandering to
the "old guard".  The "restricted section"
is now synonymous with restricted ambition.
73 G3WVG aka G*0AAA/P .. Old but not "old guard"!

Sent from my i-telephone


On 13 Apr 2012, at 09:17, John Warburton G4IRN <qrz at dxdx.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> 
> I note the amendment to the NFD rules: (c)  a muting
requirement 
> applies to receivers used -- this brings operation close
to "big 
> knob-little knob" mode, and can be implemented with
minimum external circuitry.
> 
> 
> As they initially stood, the new rules were exciting and a
catalyst 
> for innovation - the potential was there for the
restricted section of 
> NFD to be a training ground in leading-edge contest
operating.
> 
> I really thought that the contest committee were thinking
in the 
> future
> - why the back-track?
> 
> As a team, we were gearing up to the challenge of
two-transceiver
> (non-muted)  operation in the restricted section. We felt
this was a 
> real opportunity to challenge the regular leading teams
with new 
> operating techniques. The opportunity was there to expose
your 
> once-a-year contester to world-class contesting methods -
it's now 
> just slipped away, along with the potential training
ground for 
> top-notch world contesters of the future.
> 
> Poor decision, contest committee, very disappointing.
Stinks of 
> pandering to the old-guard.
> 
> John G4IRN.
> 
> 
> 
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