[SCCC] Club Circle for CQ Contests

[Paul F. Merrill]

FWIW, I’m less than 7 miles from the Northern edge of the 175’ circle and
often turn in pretty decent scores from CM95.  Socially I’m more attached
to the NCCC, but I’ve started logging all my contests as SCCC to not waste
the points since their circles are skewed way North.

Paul
W7IV / KK6P

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 22:34 Bruce Horn <bhorn at hornucopia.com> wrote:

> 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
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