RSGB CONTEST SUPPORT COMMITTEE NEWSLETTER ISSUE 41 DATE: SPECIAL ISSUE - 6th January 2017 CONTENTS: VHF CONTEST COMMITTEE ANNOUNCEMENT NEW MEMBERS FOR THE CONTEST SUPPORT COMMITTEE WANTED RSGB CONTESTS IN 2017 RESULTS OF THE 2016 ON CONTESTS OTHER HF CONTESTS IN 2017

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VHF Contest Committee announcement (by Andy G4PIQ)  

As a result of your feedback the recent survey, for the 2017 UKAC rules, we’ve introduced the concept of General and Local Clubs. We’ve received a lot of feedback that having to use the Virtual Meeting Point (VMP) for the AFS events, the HF Club Championship and the Local section of the UKACs, this is too restrictive. Consequently, we’ve added flexibility for Clubs to set a separate VMP for the UKAC events. Clubs wishing to do this should email the UK&CD Postcode or UK&CD 6 or 8 digit QTH locator of their VMP to afs.query@rsgbcc.org before the first relevant contest entry of each calendar year.

Because the first UKAC event has already taken place this year, we will accept notifications of VMP for the UKAC local section through to the end of January 2017 or before the first relevant contest entry of the year – whichever is the later.

73,
Andy Cook, G4PIQ
Chair, RSGB VHF Contest Committee
g4piq@btinternet.com

New members for the Contest Support Committee Wanted (by Ian G0FCT)   

The Contest Support Committee is responsible for the adjudication of all RSGB contests and for maintaining the RSGB Contesting Committees’ Website.

Currently, a number of volunteer adjudicator vacancies exist on the Contest Support Committee.

Typical duties include: adjudication of contests, preparing reports on contest for publication on the Committee website, answering contest related queries from entrants and assisting in the administration of the trophies awarded to the contest winners.

All volunteers are expected to have access to a PC (Windows 7 or later operating system) in order to use the bespoke software that is used to adjudicate all RSGB contests. Most of Committee business is conducted is conducted by email and by Skype. Volunteers must be willing to abide by the RSGB’s Code of Conduct.

If you are interested in joining the Contest Support Committee, please contact csc.chair@rsgb.org.uk for further information.

73,
Ian Pawson, G0FCT
Chair, RSGB Contest Support Committee
csc.chair@rsgb.org.uk

Results of the 2016 ON Contests

The results of the 2016 ON contests are available here

RSGB Contests in 2017(by Ian G0FCT)

The full 2017 RSGB contest calendars and rules for all RSGB contests are available here (HF) and here (VHF)

Other HF Contests in 2017 (by Ian G0FCT)

For more data on a wide range HF contests, the SM3CER and WA7BNM websites are very useful sources of information.

Another useful source of HF contest information is on the website of HB9DHG which can be reached by going to http://www.hb9dhg.ch, and selecting "Contest Calendar".

That's all for this special edition of the Newsletter

73, Ian Pawson G0FCT
Chair, RSGB Contest Support Committee