[UK-CONTEST] New RSGB HF Contest... ?

[John G3LZQ]

Not being a real active member of the UK Contest Reflector I was
pleased to see Fred had added me to this thread.

There has never been any real interest in RSGB Awards directly
linked or associated with contesting. In my view
collecting awards is generally a different breed of operators as
compared to contesters who prefer names in lights
and annual awards. Certificates for contest section winners etc
are different and in many instances keenly fought after.

The lifetime Commonwealth Series of Awards have the annual
Commonwealth Contest and in recent years this has
been boosted by various special anniversary awards but generally
with the exception of a hard core of applicants
keen on reaching the ultimate supreme level milestones take up is
low I suspect due to QSL receipts and the cost
associated with obtaining them.

As for Postal Districts well just looking at the RSGB District
Codes you will see there are 132 of them so that means
in the context of the new proposed contest every UK entrant would
pretty much be a unique multiplier and not all
Postal Districts would be represented.
http://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/information/districtcodes.shtml

Perhaps a simpler system of using RSGB Regions as multipliers
although I fear screams of foul from our IOM, Channel Is,
Welsh, and Scotish players.  Using region numbers would be easy
to adjudicate the contest and I am sure the contest
Committee could pull out regional winners plus overseas entrant
winners.
http://www.rsgb.org/contact/regional/

With my Awards Officer hat on it would not be too difficult to
offer a series of awards based on either system with
Phone, CW, Digital and single or multi-band options. However the
key would be the general level of interest.

F.W.I.W.

John G3LZQ