[SCCC] Club Circle for CQ Contests

[Bruce Horn]

Hi Steve,

Who would we pick up by shifting our club center and who would we be willing to lose if we did so? AOCC is a very active club whose borders are defined by section - Arizona. I don't picture contesters in Arizona abandoning the AOCC to credit the SCCC. Several ex-SCCCers who are now in Arizona are on this reflector, so they can comment on that possibility. Who produces high scores in Nevada that could be included without losing San Diego-based SCCCers and who isn't associated with the NCCC? Almost any shift to the north loses San Diego (since we purposely set the southern edge of the SCCC territory on the Mexican border). I'm not seeing a lot to gain from shifting, but maybe others can see an opportunity.

On the other hand, I'm not sure how important winning the club competition is to SCCCers. We've won our share of medium club gavels, but it usually just happens - we don't promote the club competition like the east coast contest clubs and the NCCC.

73 de Bruce, WA7BNM   (bhorn at hornucopia.com)

----- Original Message -----
From: "k0xp" <k0xp at k0xp.com>
To: "Bruce Horn" <bhorn at hornucopia.com>, "w6rw" <w6rw at earthlink.net>
Cc: "SCCC Reflector" <SCCC at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2021 9:49:15 PM
Subject: Re: [SCCC] Club Circle for CQ Contests

At 12:58 PM 6/21/2021, Bruce Horn wrote:
>Hi Mike,
>
>Looks like it. Admittedly, I haven't paid much attention to CQ club 
>rules/competition. The SCCC DM15dc center is optimized for ARRL contests.

Several east coast contest clubs shift their circle center around 
depending upon the contest and circle diameter. They can do that as 
they have several club "divisions", or areas, containing club members 
living closer to one another than to others. For example, PVRC has 
Northern Virginia, metro DC, MD, SW Virginia, NW NC, etc.. I believe 
YCCC has done the same in the past, as Nieu Englund is an awfully big 
area. We could consider the same thing in order to shift our own 
circle center to include certain contesters in certain contests.

SteveH, K0XP