[SECC] Remember when...?

[Daniel Jeswald]

Scott has hit it right on the head.  And is why I wanted and am able to
join a Contest Club.  I am unable, for the most part, to travel to a
meeting.  Thus when I saw this group it was what I was looking for.

I have been bitten many times in the past by the political clubbug.  I do
not desire to be lunch for them any longer.

Just my two cents worth.

Dan/W4NTI




> [Original Message]
> From: Scott Straw <scottstraw at mindspring.com>
> To: <secc at contesting.com>
> Date: 12/8/03 6:38:49 PM
> Subject: [SECC] Remember when...?
>
> Fellow Compatriots for Whom the term Corona has Three Meanings*:
>
> As a kibitzer of the highest caliber, and a station-challenged contester,
I 
> tend to just lurk and observe.  I feel a need however, to contribute to
the 
> cacophony of opinions regarding the state of the club.
>
> It is my recollection, and I'll admit that it is a bit fuzzy, the e-mails 
> from that era long having been returned to that great SMTP Valhalla from 
> whence they came, that the founding fathers of this SECC formed it on the 
> premise that it would be an "un-club."
>
>   - There were to be no meetings, except the absolute minimum required to 
> maintain good standing with the Contest Rules of the various
organizational 
> sponsors.  Social events were to be encouraged, but not for the purpose
of 
> conducting business.
>
> - There were to be no dues, therefore the position of Club Treasurer was 
> superfluous.
>
> -The primary means of interaction between club members was to be via the 
> secc at contesting.com e-mail broadcasting service.
>
> - Where allowable, all members were encouraged to pool their scores from 
> the various events so as to create a team score that could be bring 
> recognition, if not the envy of other clubs, to the membership.
>
> I'm sure that there were other tenets of equal or greater importance, but 
> now that my grey matter is starting to leak out around my hair follicles 
> and stain them, my ability to recollect is deteriorating.
>
> I realize that we are now MUCH larger that we were in 1998, or 1999, or 
> whenever it was that the club was formed, so maybe it is time we paid a 
> visit to the old and dusty vaults where the original premises on which
the 
> club was founded are stored and ask ourselves, "where are we now, and is
it 
> where we want to be?"
>
> Scott
> KB4KBS
>
> *a beer, a solar event, and a by product of a mismatched tuner
>
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