[UK-CONTEST] NFD

[Dave Sergeant]

On 22 Mar 2012 at 0:04, Peter Burden wrote:

> 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.

That may be the case for RSGB VHF contests. But in the big 
international events there are virtually no M3 or 2E0 entrants. Last 
year's ARRL 10m contest (SSB/CW) has a single 2E0 in the phone section 
and no M3's. Similar for ARRL DX Phone.

IN NFD we don't of course have a listing of operators publicly 
available, so it is not possible to know how many participate for their 
clubs.

> 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.
> 
RadCom used to publish 'latest callsign issued' in the 1970s, but this 
is clearly now not possible since people choose their callsigns at 
random.

Nobody has commented on rule 3, site definition:

"The Site must be contained within either a circle of 1km diameter, or 
within the limits of the property where the station is established, 
whichever is the smaller."

This prohibits setting up a station in ones back garden and using the 
field behind for antennas (fed with a long feeder whose length has no 
limit specified).

73 Dave G3YMC


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