[UK-CONTEST] NFD

[Peter Burden]

A quick check gives licence classes A 70.6%, I 8.8% and F 20.6%, looking at
the submitted logs for the latest UKAC 432 (a contest that interests me)
breakdown by licence class is A 91.1%, I 5.4%, F 3.6% so, yes, foundation
class is under-represented.

Could be a result of equipment restrictions or foundation class operating
club stations and I imagine few foundation class licence holders would have
432 MHz SSB gear.

I certainly support any suggestion that more prominence should be given to
foundation class people that submit logs - but please not yet another
section. Descriptive accounts of "the contest experience" could also whet
appetites.

BTW Ken I can't remember Radcom (or the Bull) regularly listing newly
issued licences, SWM used to do that when I was first licensed (1965) but
only in response to such people writing in.

On 21 March 2012 23:22, M0RXX <stuart at m0rxx.me.uk> wrote:

> Ken
> Look at the CC results M3, M6 and MM6's things are looking up.
>
> Stuart Southern.
>
> Radio Amateur. M0RXX
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> On 21 Mar 2012, at 21:30, Ken Eastty <ken.g3lvp at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> >   But the excitement in NFD should surely come primarily from operating.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > Too late for that Dave....
> >
> > "CW skimmer like technology (eg. MixW) is permitted as a CW reader to
> > allow non-CW literate operators to participate",
> >
> > Stick up the antenna, Switch on the rig, Hook up the Laptop & go down
> > the pub, sounds good to me, I also thought that
> > NFD was about CW operating.
> >
> > From recent contest results I get the impression that very few new Full
> > licencees take part in contests but it's hard to be sure as I don't have
> > a recent edition of the Callbook, once upon a time current callsigns
> > being issued were published regularly in Radcom perhaps it's time for
> > this to be reinstated.
> > What is noticeable is that very few M3 & 2E/M/W calls appear in the
> > results of the main RSGB contests either on HF or VHF
> > possibly as a result of being restricted to 10 or 50W. Separate awards
> > for operators in these classes might encourage a few more of them to
> > participate..
> >
> > 73...
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > G3LVP
> >
> >
> >
> >
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