[SECC] SECC

[John Laney]

Hello all:

I think the discussion is good.  Remember that we were founded as an 
OPERATING club.  The club was founded by W4AN with help from a few 
others.  Bill was not one to set up or go to social events unless they 
were in conjunction with some competitive operating event.  Sorry, but 
that is my read on it.

I think it would be good if the club had social events from time to 
time.  All it takes is some volunteers to organize them.  We had a very 
successful picnic at NQ4I's old QTH a few years ago.  I think we tried 
to schedule another one since and some disaster happened to cause us to 
cancel.

We are doing pretty well on the operating event part.  I am not in favor 
of kicking anybody out because they are not as active right now as they 
once were or may be in the future.  I'll do as Jeff suggests and review 
the membership list and give him my take on who is active and to what 
extent.  It is my impression that Bill, AA4LR, club secretary,keeps that 
list up to date as others join.

I don't think that the results of the Ga QSO Party from 2003 have been 
mailed out with certificates yet.  KT4ZB, can you bring us up to date on 
that?  The GQP chairman for 2003 disappeared and we had to re-solicit 
logs, etc.  We had the results posted before this year's contest, but 
the certificates probably haven't been mailed out.  I haven't received 
one.  Most state QSO Parties try to get the results out for one year a 
few months before the next running of the party.  The mailing should 
ideally (whenever it goes out) give the results of the last running and 
hype the upcoming running.  I ran it for about 20 years and I always got 
the results out before the next running (it was in May--on Mother's Day 
during those years).  Now, with computer programs and computer log 
checking, we should do better, but we have never promised results by a 
certain date.  I hope Jeff will continue to do the GQP promotion and 
logchecking.  I am not competent with computers to be able to do that 
these days and, frankly I paid my dues during 20 years when I manually 
cross-checked every claimed QSO against every other log received.

We do desperately need a volunteer who is familiar with maintaining 
wegpages to update our webpage and to maintain it thereafter.  Again, I 
am not competent to do that.  Any volunteer, please contact KU8E 
directly with a copy to K4EA, president of SECC and to K4BAI, vpres.

Thanks to all of you for your continued support of SECC and its 
operating activities.  Any volunteers to sponsor social activities 
should stand up and be counted.

73,


John, K4BAI.