[CQ-Contest] Volunteers Needed for Contest Coverage Working Group

[Jim Idelson]

Hi Everybody,

So far, we've had a very good response to the call for volunteers to 
participate on the ARRL Contest Coverage working Group. This group will assist 
the ARRL in coming up with a great contest coverage solution that takes 
advantage of print and electronic delivery tools - like QST, the ARRL web site 
and email. The plan must also make financial sense to the ARRL.

The goal is to put together a Working Group that is:
1.  Representative and sensitive to the needs of the both the amateur radio 
community as a whole and the contesting community, in particular, and
2.  Skilled and experienced in the key disciplines of contesting, sports 
journalism, print periodical publishing and electronic publishing.

The group will have a key contact at the ARRL, and will assist in developing a 
great plan, which will be presented for approval at the ARRL BoD meeting in 
July 2002.

Here are the kinds of people we are recruiting:
- Long-time, experienced contesters 
- New, less-experienced contesters-in-training 
- Non-contesters 
- Non-ARRL members and non-US ops
- Business/marketing/publishing experts 
- Sports journalism/writing experts 
- Electronic delivery experts 

As you might well expect, we have lots of experienced contesters and electronic 
delivery experts volunteering. I am pleasantly surprised to have received 
offers of assistance from a couple of people who have experience in the 
magazine business and as a sports journalist.

I think we really need more help in the sports writing area. This is a very 
important component. We also need representation from the 'less connected' part 
of our community - non-US, non-ARRL, non-webified, and non-contesters. If you 
are a good candidate for any of these profiles, we need your help! Please refer 
others, if you think they might be able to assist.

73,

Jim K1IR


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