[SECC] Alabama Contest Group and SECC Club Circle

[K5ZM]

Ya know what.. I've been holding my tongue on this for the risk of sounding
like an extremist who blows everything out of proportion. 

But screw it. This is gonna get out of hand real soon. Before you start with
your dragnet, you would do well do define things like "contribution" and
"deadwood". 

And if you've a couple of ops on the roster who might be in a lull as
happens from time to time... If they were within the circle anyway, would it
really matter? 

And why does the state of the roster really matter that much at all??
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's an SECC newsletter that
gets mailed out every month or every quarter. So we're not wasting money
there. Speaking of which, I don't recall there being any dues :) 

Now to myself. If you'll go the roster, you'll see the letters 'O' and 'R'
next to the word 'Portland'. Obviously, I don't live within the circle. But
I fly into ATL 2 or 3 time a year for majour 'tests at NQ4I. I've been a
regular there for a number of years now. Sounds like a fair contribution to
me. 

So again, let's define a few things first, huh? :) 

73, 

Ian, K5ZM 

 
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: secc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of ku8e at bellsouth.net
> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 1:03 PM
> To: secc at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [SECC] Alabama Contest Group and SECC Club Circle
> 
> K4SB wrote:
> ==========================================================
> 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 )
> ============================================================
> 
> Who ever is the keeper of the roster should update it. It is badly out of
date.
> There is no reason to remove anyone unless they have moved out of the area
> and no longer contribute to the club in any way. Good examples of people
you
> don't want to remove are K9AY, who now lives in W9 but like to keep in
touch and
> Val, N4RJ, who has recently been getting back on the air after an absence
for
> awhile.
> 
> Also :
> =============================================================
> 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.
> ==============================================================
> 
> I don't think it's too late since we seem to be moving the circle randomly
> depending on who
> is going to be on. For example for SS we will probably be using the
variation of
> the circle
> that includes W4OC.
> 
> Also, note the circle for ARRL is a 175 radius but CQ also has a circle
which is 275
> KM or
> about 170.8 miles....
> 
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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