Thanks for your work on this Ed!
73,
Jay, K4OGG
At 12:13 PM 7/8/2003, K4SB wrote:
>I am extremely pleased to announce that the South East Contest Club
>has a new vanity call, NR4X. I remain the trustee, but expect to hand
>this off to Jeff in a matter of weeks. ( want to get someone not so
>long in the tooth ) Maybe we should demand he get a 4 land call! ):>
>
>Couple of points to mention. First of all, this is one hell of a CW
>call. It's snappy, and even on SSB, the phonetics are pretty good.
>
>Should make a great call for one of our multi groups in the WPX.
>Should also be a great asset for the GQP. For those of you ( me
>included ) not intimately familiar with a popular offset of county
>hunting call BINGO, this is how it works. After you've worked all the
>counties and gotten your USCHA award, many guys start over, but now
>the object is to work all the counties again for the BINGO award. But,
>this award requires working
>a station which has the first letter of the suffix of the call as the
>same as the county name. IE, If W0ABC worked K4SB in either Spaulding
>or Baker counties, my card would count for bingo. Now the hitch!! IF a
>call ends with a X, it's a wild card, and counts for BINGO in ANY
>county. So our rovers should have a bang up time with this one,
>especially if we advertise it in advance. This will bring out the
>BINGO hunters in droves!
>
>At the last Club meeting, we generally agreed on some rules.
>
>1. Permission to use the call must be obtained from the Trustee of
>course. AND, the trustee MUST reside within the operating boundary's
>of the SECC. ( the 75 mile circle )
>If the trustee moves out of this location, the trustee shall be
>changed to someone inside the circle. And remember, you can be the
>trustee with ANY class of license except Novice. (not even sure if
>Novice is excluded) You do NOT have to be an Extra license holder,
>even though this is a vaniity call. The SECC is the owner, not any one
>person.
>
>2. No operator or operators may use the call for the same contest in
>the same calendar year. (ie) if you OR a group use it for CQWPX CW,
>neither you nor ANY member of the group may use the call in the CQWPX
>SSB, UNLESS no one else requests permission to use the call. And NO,
>you can't just change one op. The rule here gives priority more to the
>STATION you use. So if a bunch of you hooligans use Bill's station for
>a location, you
>can't use the call at any other multi op big gun location later in the
>year.
>
>3. If you or a group use the call for say, the CQWPX CW 2003, and then
>request it again for the WPX CW 2004, your priority will be BELOW that
>of any other person or group requesting the call.
>
>4. If you're confused, just imagine how I feel. I'm sure we will need
>to update these rules or change them as the CLUB!!!! desires.
>
>5. You may apply for use of the call 30 days before the start of any
>contest. In non contest periods, just send me an email and you can use
>it. PLEASE remember that while you may use the call, you MUST operate
>it within the limits of your own license unless of course, an higher (
>than you ) licence holder is present, or a member of the group has
>Extra Class privileges.
>
>I hope you're all pleased. BUT, if a majority want to look for another
>call, I'll do the fancy footwork and get us another one.
>
>4. Multi ops generally receive priority over single ops, BUT, the
>provisions of Rule 2 apply. I'm sure we made need to redifine this so
>an individual can use the call.
>
>73
>Ed
>
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