[UK-CONTEST] HF NFD RESULTS PUBLISHED

[QUENTIN COLLIER]

You're right Keith, it is depressing. I also remember the days of 100+ entries: basically numbers have been dropping slowly for the last decade or so, although the decline appeared to be levelling out. The Contest Committee believe that this is largely due to the ageing amateur population - but despite taking active measures to promote the event (eg. amongst new clubs taking part in the 80m CCs) there is not a lot that can be done about the passage of the years!
 
There are 2 main reasons for the big drop in 2012 (38 entries compared with, from memory, 55 in 2010). The first is the issue over rule changes referred to by Stewart G3YSX: the second is the unfortunate clash with the Jubilee celebrations, which I know for sure prevented some of the regulars from taking part. The CC are taking measures to ensure that we avoid the problems with rule changes for 2013, and as far as I am aware there are no plans for a 71 year Jubilee - so hopefully we will see numbers back up in 2013.

73,




Quin G3WRR

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From: Keith Maton <g6nhu at me.com>
To: UK-Contest <uk-contest at contesting.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, 28 August 2012, 22:00
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] HF NFD RESULTS PUBLISHED

Wow!  That's not many entries.  I'm quite shocked.

I remember NFD from years ago when I was a lad and used to help set up at the Harlow club, G6UT and I'm sure there were many more entries then.

Isn't NFD supposed to be the RSGB flagship contest of the year?

73
Keith, G6NHU


On 28 Aug 2012, at 09:33, QUENTIN COLLIER <q.g.collier at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Please note that the HF NFD results are now published on the Contest Committee website at the following URL:
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> http://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/hfresults.pl?Contest=NFD&year=2012
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> 73,
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> Quin G3WRR
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