[SECC] This weekend's contests

[Matt Lee, WB6BWZ]

John, thanks for providing FOC details. I've heard "CQ FOC" being used
at high speed CW, usually about 35+ wpm, but never knew that high speed
CW isn't what FOC is all about. (Full details about the First Class CW
Operators' Club is at http://www.firstclasscw.org.uk/.)

For the rest of us, there is The Second Class Operators' Club, aka SOC,
http://www.qsl.net/soc/. ;)

--
Matt Lee, WB6BWZ
Atlanta, Georgia USA
<wb6bwz at arrl.net> 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: secc-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of John Laney
> Sent: Thursday, 05 February, 2004 16:48
> To: secc at contesting.com
> Subject: [SECC] This weekend's contests

...

> Let me also mention, as a matter of information, that this is 
> also the 
> weekend for a closed club competition of the FOC CW Club.  It 
> runs from 
> 21 UTC Friday until 21 UTC Sunday and members generally work 
> each other 
> around 25 khz up on CW on each band 160-10M.  The exchange is 
> callsign, 
> RST, and FOC membership number.  This is a 500 member maximum 
> invitation 
> type club whose members include W4AN, K4BAI, K4OAH, K4UEE, 
> N4XP, K2UFT 
> and K4EWG in GA and N4KG in AL and K4II in SC.  (Sorry to 
> anyone I left 
> out.)  If you hear someone you want to work who is in that 
> contest, you 
> might get a quick reply and an exchange of RSTs, but stations in rare 
> countries or portable operations like ZF2NT, PJ2L, PJ5NA might not 
> answer non-members since it would invite a lot more 
> non-members to call. 
>   I hope you won't consider them rude.  I always give an RST 
> to anyone 
> who calls, but understand the problem it might be if I were in a rare 
> country.
> 
> 73,
> 
> 
> John, K4BAI.
>
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