[SECC] Alabama Contest Group and SECC Club Circle

[Roger L. Hackler]

Ed Wrote:

"And everyone should remember the circle ONLY applies to ARRL contests.
Yet, I have never seen a DX member of th Club or a ham without a 4 in the
call submit a single score for us."
I submit scores (and not only to 3830) for 6 or 7 contests per year, and
they all say South East Contest Club, where applicable.
Circle changes do not affect me personally at all as I live in Metro
Atlanta, and I'm glad I'm not making the decisions on this one!
73 de KN6RO
Roger

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	secc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com]  On
Behalf Of Ed
Sent:	Monday, October 09, 2006 2:39 PM
To:	secc at contesting.com
Subject:	Re: [SECC] Alabama Contest Group and SECC Club Circle

Jeff wrote:

I assume that they will not be submitting scores for the SECC anymore.
I was wondering if  there has been any thought about moving the SECC
club circle ?  We obviously don't need the circle to be as far west or
north (due the the TCG) as  it is now. On the other hand if the circle
is shifted southeast we could pickup guys like W4BQF,  KT4ZB, KF4GTA
and
the guys in the FCG-Panhandle who might want to submit scores for the
SECC.
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There has been plenty of discussion on this topic, even to a point of
a Constitutional Amendment permitting the SECC to move the center of
the circle. In reality, it is only used for those contests in which
Don, W4OC does not participate.

I have done the geometry many times, and the bottom line is this.

1.  The circle can ( and should ) be moved slightly to the West. This
would pick up couple of the AL guys.

2. It CANNOT be moved to the East without excluding some current
members
within the circle. It also CANNOT be moved to the South, or Don will
lose out again.

3. It CAN be shifted slightly to the SouthWest, but only by about
11 miles, and no one benefits.

I fully agree that picking up some guys to the South would help us
tremendously. I'd love to have Tommy, W4BQF within the group.

>From the above, you can see what can be done and not done.

Personally, I believe we have far too many members of the Club who
do not meet the criteria of at least 2 submissions per year of any
contests. And posting your score to the 3830 Ref. does NOT qualify.

I do not know the effect of cleaning out the dead wood, but as a
start, before any movement of the circle is done, we need to know
just who is not contributing, and remove them from membership in the
Club. ( I did NOT say remove them from the reflector )

Then, perhaps a committee of the more active members could make the
hard choices. And that commmitee should have at least 1, but not more
of our current officers on it. Then submit their recommendations to
the Club for a vote. Without that step first, it is a wasted effort.

And everyone should keep in mind it's getting late in the year with
some pretty serious contests coming up. If we're going to do it,
it has to be done quickly.

And everyone should remember the circle ONLY applies to ARRL contests.
Yet, I have never seen a DX member of th Club or a ham without a
4 in the call submit a single score for us.

73
Ed
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