[SECC] SECC

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John,

I have sent KT4ZB at least two emails since April with an attachment of the certificate winners from the 2003 GQP. I have not recieved a reply or confirmation....

              Jeff

> 
> From: John Laney <k4bai at worldnet.att.net>
> Date: 2004/09/02 Thu PM 05:06:13 EDT
> To: secc at contesting.com
> Subject: [SECC] SECC
> 
> 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.
> 
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