[CQ-Contest] Circle Jerks

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

Your map link makes it easy ... 15 grids will cover your 
membership with a grid or two to spare.  Of course no circle 
with a 275 km radius can possibly cover the roughly 700 km 
from W5VX to W5FTV.  

The whole point is that the flexibility of an arbitrary shape 
"club area" is long over due.  14 or 15 grids with a maximum 
distance of 600 miles (1000 km) is a reasonable standard in 
the current environment. 

73, 

   ... Joe, W4TV 
 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of 
> Kenneth E. Harker
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:26 AM
> To: CQ Contest
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Circle Jerks
> 
> 
>      FWIW, the Central Texas DX & Contest Club is in something 
> of a similar situation.  Most of the membership is in South Texas 
> (STX), but we have several active contesters living in the southern 
> parts of North Texas (NTX) section, and there's no way a 175 mile 
> or 275 km radius circle will encompass all of our Texas members:
> 
>      http://www.ctdxcc.org/maps/
> 
> > Joe,
> > Look at http://www.w0aa.org/about_map.htm. The MWA did a 
> lot of tweaking in an attempt to include as many people as 
> possible but we're still missing out on a lot of Northern 
> part of the state. If we went the "or section" route, we'd 
> lose western Wisconsin.
> > 73 Steve K0SR
> > 
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:14:54AM +0000, 
> steve.root at culligan4water.com wrote:
> > > However, I do 
> > >not know of another case (other than TCG which provided the 
> > >impetus for the "one section" rule in ARRL contests) where 
> > >there is a single contest club covering an entire state and 
> > >the state is too long/wide to be completely circumscribed 
> > >by a 175 mile circle. 
> > >
> > >73, 
> > >
> > > ... Joe, W4TV 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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> -- 
> Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
> kenharker at kenharker.com
> http://www.kenharker.com/
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