[UK-CONTEST] 2. 80m Club Championship (Chairman, RSGB Contest Committee)

[Christopher Soames]

In view of the amount of bad feeling this rule has invoked within the 
Club Championship community (No matter how much the chairman chooses to 
minimise it) and the lack of consultation, no vote being taken on the 
decision, emails flashing around saying it was actually forced on us by 
The Chairman of the committee because many of the contester committee 
are against it. I think the status quo should be put in place. Just to 
help the chairman out that means that last years rules a adhered to 
until such time as a suitable and sufficient discussion can take place, 
that includes the contesters and not just an unelected committee with a 
dictatorial chairman.

My RSGB Membership is now cancelled.

G0TZZ

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> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:01:25 +0000
> From: Andy Summers<g4kno.mail at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Connectors
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> Quite a long time ago now, I tried to switch to using N-type in the shack,
> but it's like swimming against the tide. I just ended up having to buy lots
> of N-UHF adaptors to connect to anything - at increased cost. In addition,
> taking any of my stuff to club contest outings meant I was incompatible and
> I needed a pocket-full of adaptors.
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> Unquestionably N-types are better and can handle the power (I think about
> 5kW @20MHz), but at HF it simply wasn't worth the hassle once pressure
> gland UHF connectors became widely available. Don't forget that mis-match
> isn't loss - only the resistive part is, so the _very_ small mismatch at HF
> is tuned-out by your auto-tuner/pi-network.
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> 73,
> Andy, G4KNO.
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> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:08:49 +0000
> From: "Chairman, RSGB Contest Committee"<g3sqx at edtaylor.org>
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] 80m Club Championship
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> Some contesters have mentioned that the division of the 80m CC entrants
> into two categories does not fit their expectations.  In particular, two
> in East Anglia and one in Scotland say that the "35km radius" rule is
> not appropriate for the "local" category.
>
> The decision was made because we have had representations from many
> clubs who draw their membership from a relatively limited area.  They
> considered themselves disadvantaged when trying to compete with
> geographically-dispersed individual participants who associate
> themselves with successful clubs, sometimes much further away.
>
> It should be emphasised that nobody is excluded from the competition --
> on the contrary, there will be an additional trophy and extra
> certificates for those who do well in the different categories.
> Stations outside the UK will no longer be allowed to represent a UK
> club, which is generally seen as logical, but they will instead receive
> their own sets of certificates.
>
> We ask Affiliated Societies to work under the new rules until the end of
> the series, and them let us have any comments that they wish.  We are
> aware that the the consultation process is in need of improvement, and
> will be working with the RSGB's Interim Board to find ways of improving
> this in time for the Summer.  In particular, most entrants to the 80m
> CCs are not subscribers to this reflector, and we would like to find a
> better way (at least) of asking their opinion and putting specific
> points to them for discussion and decision.
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> 73,
>
> Ed Taylor, GW3SQX
> Chairman, RSGB Contest Committee
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Regards from

Chris Soames
G0TZZ
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