[UK-CONTEST] : Unnecessary 80m CC rule tweaking

[Christopher Soames]

On 07/01/2012 20:00, uk-contest-request at contesting.com wrote:
> : [UK-CONTEST] Unnecessary 80m CC rule tweaking
You will be lucky to get an answer Dave, the committee seem to be a law 
unto themselves supported in its entirety by the contest groups or at 
least individual members of contest groups.
This ill thought out rule change has effected so many clubs in the 
country especially in the larger counties.
The intent may have been good but the distance of 35 Kms is ridiculous 
with the geographical size of most of the counties in this country, a 
35Km circle from our club meeting point only covers about 35% of our 
catchment area since we are a county club.
I have a club nearer to me than the one I have been a member of for 
several years however they only enter contests occasionally, am I really 
to be forced into this club because of this poorly thought out rule change.

My current club has voted to take part in the Local section of the 80m 
CC's and rightly so. They are after all a local club that does not 
benefit from the advantage of being spread all over the country like a 
contest group and therefore do not get the advantage from having some 
members always in the propagation zone. Which we all know is an 
advantage in the CC's.
As a result I will no longer be entering the CC's nor any other RSGB 
contest.

I fully support the decision of my club it is something I have been very 
vocal about in the past "A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD WITH OTHER CLUBS AND 
NATIONAL CONTEST GROUPS IN THEIR OWN CONTEST".
I am not the only member that this causes a problem for and I dare say 
there are many more across the country.
Perhaps we should invite all club members that this rule kicks in the 
teeth to enter a new team we could call it the Contest group for members 
the RSGB Contest Committee don't want.

I expect the usual from Roger about whinging, I would like to add what I 
have written is fact, and I am entitled to disagree with any decision 
made by an unelected committee providing I justify my gripes and it 
would seem there are many with this gripe.

To the committee I would suggest that you got it wrong this time so be 
big and match the distance to that of the AFS, or is your next intent to 
drastically reduce that distance and cut many of us from being able to 
represent our LOCAL CLUBS in the AFS as well ??

If we let this stay unchanged then we are shooting ourselves in the 
foot, I think a real fight needs to be made of this item and should not 
be left to be forgotten in the depths of time, keep fighting this stupid 
ill thought out decision from all fronts, or you will see things like 
the AFS reduced to 35 Kms and other changes that the committee want but 
the competitors do not.
Even F1 confers before making changes that effect everyone, where was 
the debate on this???

A couple of weeks ago I enquired as to what one should do if Clubs
within 35 km or, if none, the nearest Club over 35 km, choose to not
enter Contests.

So far my enquiry has gone unanswered, as has my question to the
Committee how many Members voted in favour of the change, how many
opposed, was there a vote?

In view of the comment about "sacking" in Jim MM0BQI's recent posting on
here I am beginning to wonder if the Committee is a Branch of the
new-look RSGB or of the North Korean "Democratic" Government

Maybe this is a way of reducing over-crowding on 80m

-- 
Regards from

Chris Soames
G0TZZ
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