[UK-CONTEST] Club Details in 80m CC SSB log

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

OK, I have resubmitted my log without the Soapbox details this time.

I have to say I find the communication of the information required and the process of submitting that, for this season to be very poorly considered.
Even disregarding the notion of a 35km radius etc., just how we are to convey this information is not thought out well.
I believe the club should be providing it's location details in a separate mail or via a web form that is purely to 'define' our requirements, having an op put it in their log is a poor substitute for a properly thought out process.

I have never criticised the CC before and normally think they have got things right and am very conscious of them being volunteers. But in this instance, I believe the've got it completely wrong. In trying to combat the notion of 'Contesting Clubs' with disparate membership of members with significant stations, dotted around the UK, 'taking over' the top positions in what is notionally a local club contest, all for the purpose of helping along the 'little pistols' (of which I'm one), they have thrown the baby out with the bathwater.

In my opinion, we should go back to the same rules as last year, for this season, while everyone reflects on what any rules changes would mean and how best to implement them. Taking into account that some clubs have 'country members' who are bonafide members of a club, have moved away, but wish to continue to support their original club.

I appreciate it becomes very difficult to substantiate that and to differentiate it from the scenario described above, but clearly, 35km is not suitable for non-uban clubs, or indeed for some urban clubs where a member has moved beyond 35km from their club and now find themselves within the 'jurisdiction' of a different club (Bracknell, Reading & Newbury for example).

73 de David, M0XDF

On 7 Feb 2012, at 07:05, Dave Sergeant wrote:

> I notice from the rules that this requirement to state the club address 
> is only referred to in the section for the 'local' section (2a) and 
> above this paragraph it says "Societies which do not specify the 
> category which they are entering will be placed in the General 
> Category." There are no instructions anywhere of how you actually say 
> which section the club is intending to be in for the rest of the year.
> 
> Since the first event this year is an SSB leg, there will I think be 
> only one entrant from our club and we appreciate David entering. But if 
> he specifies our club address in his log, does this imply that we have 
> now been entered in the 'club' section and when the CW leg takes place 
> later in the month our member in Exeter will be barred from entering?
> 
> So David, until things are clearer, I suggest you do NOT specify our 
> club address in your entry. If you have already submitted it, please 
> submit it again with the club details deleted.
> 
> More clarification on this is definitely needed from the contest 
> committee.
> 
> 73 Dave G3YMC
> 
> On 6 Feb 2012 at 23:06, David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:
> 
>> In the first contest of each year that a Society enters the
>> Championship, one of the logs submitted for the Society must specify its
>> "Usual Meeting Place", stating its address and Postcode or Locator.
>>