[SECC] Club Competition

[Kevan Nason]

Jeff,

Ed, K3DNE, is President of the SFCG and has been very interested in
boosting activity of that group. Know it wasn't my place to do it, and hope
you don't mind, but I took the liberty of forwarding this to him for his
consideration even before the SECC group spoke up. Give him some time to
think up some options too. We've talked about activity and I know he is
open to and actively seeking ideas. I copied him in on this email too so
you two have each other's email address.

As to SECC activity, that's why I now belong to both the SECC and SFCG --
and the unmentioned DDCC. If the SECC had been an active organization I
wouldn't now be posting scores for the SFCG. John, K4BAI, and I talked
about this years ago. I was very active in the club and post all the time.
Not because I'm a know-it-all as some seem to think, but because I'm
enthusiastic about contesting and love to share what I've learned and
discovered about it with others. Usually it is stuff others taught me and
experienced ops already know. But I digress... In my opinion, the SECC has
been fading away for a long time. Hardly anyone seemed interested and
anything other than a post of your score was a rarity. You couldn't drum up
a conversation no matter how hard you tried. I asked myself what the point
of a contest club is if there isn't any sharing of ideas. The spinoff and
other regional groups you describe tell me I wasn't the only one that felt
that way. Haven't told you, but I've been very happy you have started to
rekindle things a bit Jeff. However, from my perspective it will be hard to
put the "Jumping Ship" Genie back in the bottle and bring back those of us
who have strayed. The new blood coming in might be the best focus for
rejuvenation efforts. Just my opinion though and I've certainly been wrong
many times in my life.

The DDCC is drawing talent from this region too. Their location diversity
makes it harder for them to compete in an ARRL circle event though.

So, I guess to sum up I'd say targeted regional competitions are a great
idea. Ed, K3DNE, has kicked around that thought too. Change needs
cooperation and membership effort. Hope people step up. I did tell Ed that
I thought maybe the SECC was a bit of a giant compared to the SECC. Not
sure how competitive the SFCG would be. But we're getting (and growing)
some good contesters and folks are beginning to improve their stations, so
maybe something can be worked out. Regardless of how things go with the
SFCG it is good to hear the SECC looking to shake things up for themselves.
It's needed.

Kevan N4XL

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 1:54 PM Jeff Clarke <ku8e at ku8e.com> wrote:

>
> Back when I lived in Ohio I was a long time member (and president a
> couple times in the 1990's) of the Mad River Radio Club. Sometime in the
> 1980's the activity in the club was lacking and some disgruntled members
> formed the North Coast Contesters. Does this sound familiar? The same
> thing happened here when the Alabama Contest Group, Georgia Contest
> Group and Swamp Fox Contest Group were formed. The South East Contest
> Club is actually just a former shell of itself.  For those that are new
> the South East Contest Club won the Sweepstakes medium category club
> competition a couple times in the early 2000's.
>
> See below the entries for each club submitted (posted on 3830) for 2020
> CW Sweepstakes : SECC -
> https://www.3830scores.com/currecscores.php?arg=JUccv3zbmyvqp
>
>   GCG - https://www.3830scores.com/currecscores.php?arg=JUccv3zbmyvqp
>
>   ACG - https://www.3830scores.com/currecscores.php?arg=JUccv3zbmyvqp
>
> Swamp Fox - https://www.3830scores.com/currecscores.php?arg=JUccv3zbmyvqp
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> All though there were some big scores posted (especially in SECC and
> GCG) the activity by all these clubs was pretty underwhelming. I
> calculated if the SECC and GCG had submitted one club entry (as either
> GCG or SECC) we would've had 1,612,542 points for just CW weekend. If
> you add in what might happen in SSB weekend this could turn out to be a
> pretty good club score. If you look at
> https://contest-clubs.arrl.org/viewlists.php which lists all the
> eligible members for each club you will also find that there are many
> that still belong to the SECC and these other clubs with the exception
> of ACG. K4BAI is the only SECC member that still belongs to ACG and no
> one in Alabama is in SECC anymore.
>
> Back to the Mad River Radio Club story...  After awhile the two clubs
> figured out they had different interests. The members of North Coast
> Contesters found they were more interested in DX contests while the MRRC
> was more into domestic contests. So they made a deal that members of
> both clubs would submit their DX contest results for NCC and domestic
> contest scores for MRRC. They continue to do this today. I'm wondering
> if there might be an interest in doing something similar here? Form the
> ARRL club list I found out I'm both of member of GCG in addition the
> SECC.  So what if we made a deal that dual members would say submit
> their scores for GCG and domestic contests for SECC? This doesn't have
> to be set in stone and can agreed on every year.  I don't think there is
> any animosity between members of these different clubs. Plus there are
> no rules that say you can't belong to more than one club.
>
> I'm interesting in hearing some feedback.
>
> Jeff KU8E
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