[SECC] FW: Sweepstakes Club Competition

[Schulz Jonathan]

Not to drag this up again but Dan had just sent this and I suppose it
bounced from the SECC list

73
Jon
K9JS

-----Original Message-----
From: Henderson, Dan N1ND [mailto:dhenderson at arrl.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 8:00 AM
To: Schulz Jonathan; secc at contesting.com
Subject: RE: [SECC] Sweepstakes Club Competition

Hi everyone:

I am sorry for the delay in responding to this.  I read it at home one
evening and frankly forgot to answer it the following day from the office.

The DX and Sweepstakes Club competitions are each a single event contested
over two weekends.  As such having a "CW" circle and a separate "SSB" circle
is not permitted by the rules.  All of the participants need to reside and
operate within the same 175-mile radius circle for both weekends.

Example: Let's say you have a circle that includes Station A on the very
edge but within the 175-mile radius for CW but Station B is not within the
circle. You then move the circle for Phone so that Station B is included but
that Station A is no longer within the circle.  To include both your circle
would have be larger than 175-miles in radius, so you can not include both
of their scores.  Either A's CW score of B's Phone score would have to be
dropped.

Thanks and 73

Dan Henderson, N1ND
ARRL Contest Branch Manager

-----Original Message-----
From: Schulz Jonathan [mailto:jonathan.schulz at siemens.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:09 PM
To: secc at contesting.com
Cc: Henderson, Dan N1ND
Subject: RE: [SECC] Sweepstakes Club Competition

For my peace of mind and to avoid Ed's sarcasm in the future, I am copying
Dan Henderson with this email, he can tell us both if it's ok or not. What
say Dan?

Since I doubt Dan is subscribed to the SECC reflector I'll forward his
response when it arrives. 

>From http://www.arrl.org/contests/cc.html

"One station can submit two entries-one on CW and one on phone in the
November Sweepstakes and the DX Contest. 

All stations and all operators must reside within the club territory, which
is either defined by a 175-mile (282-kilometer) circle from a designated
area or one ARRL section"


I question the shifting the designated area for each of the SS weekends, I
just do not think that it is legal to do it. 

It's unfortunate that some darn good operators may get left out sometimes -
happens every year up here in SMC land, those that are "out of our circle"
work hard to contact all of the in circle stations.

I'm sure there may be some that are questioning what a Yankee is sticking
his nose in "our" business. Over the last year I've operated from SECC
stations 5 times and will probably continue to do so a few times a year,
(Maybe even for SS sometime?) so I feel like I belong a little bit.


73
Jon
K9JS