{"id":14940,"date":"2016-04-21T11:23:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T11:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?page_id=14940"},"modified":"2018-12-03T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:32:42","slug":"presidential-review-of-contesting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/board-of-directors\/presidential-review-of-contesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Review of Contesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Following disquiet about the adjudication of a RSGB Contest, the Board asked RSGB President John Gould, G3WKL, to conduct a broad review of the key aspects of contest management.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This culminated in a workshop held on 22 July 2015 and the notes of the event are here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thersgb.org\/publications\/committees\/contest\/reports\/presidential-review-of-contesting-workshop-final-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Notes of the Presidential Review of Contesting Workshop (6-page\/76KB PDF)<\/a><br \/>\nHeld 22 July 2015 at the Arden Hotel, Birmingham<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Board subsequently endorsed the following vision for RSGB contests<\/p>\n<p>The RSGB will organise and administer a range of contests appealing to a broad spectrum of the Membership that are well administered, actively supported by a significant subset of the Society Membership and encourage the achievement of the following objectives:<br \/>\n\u2022 To improve operating technique and station design\/performance and encourage excellence<br \/>\n\u2022 To train the operators in readiness for the major global contests<br \/>\n\u2022 To encourage newcomers to take up contesting<br \/>\n\u2022 To appeal to people in all parts of the UK with stations of all types<br \/>\n\u2022 To increase usage of the bands<br \/>\n\u2022 To push the frontiers of relevant technologies<br \/>\n\u2022 To explore the limits of propagation<br \/>\n\u2022 To exist with the understanding and support of non-contesters<br \/>\n\u2022 To allow personal measurement of contest performance year-on-year and provide a\u00a0personal yardstick for improvement<br \/>\n\u2022 To be fairly administered on a non-partisan basis<br \/>\n\u2022 To encourage a mentoring culture amongst the contest community to encourage and\u00a0enable new contesters<br \/>\n\u2022 To have fun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following disquiet about the adjudication of a RSGB Contest, the Board asked RSGB President John Gould, G3WKL, to conduct a broad review of the key aspects of contest management. This culminated in a workshop held on 22 July 2015 and the notes of the event are here. Notes of the Presidential Review of Contesting Workshop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"parent":187,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14940","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14940\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}