[SECC] Club Competition

[John Laney]

The Alabama Contest Group has a weekly discussion group (net?) on the 
low end of 75M phone band in all but the summer months (when the QRN is 
often too high).  SECC had one also on 75M for a few months years ago, 
but I was doing so much in ham radio, that was one thing that I didn't 
keep up and no one else wanted to be the NCS or organizer.  Now, I don't 
have an antenna that will load on 75M SSB except when I fold back an end 
of my 80M inverted vee for a weekend phone contest.  I think it would be 
a very good thing resume if someone will be in charge of organizing and 
publicizing it.  73, John, K4BAI.

On 11/11/2020 10:37 AM, Randy Farmer wrote:
> Ain't it so. As one of the earliest member of the DFW Contest Group, I 
> always valued most the monthly dinner get-togethers. These were NOT 
> meetings in the sense of officer's reports, etc. but instead just a 
> bunch of hams sharing food and drink in a public place. Due to the 
> extended geographic area of the DFW area and the horrendous traffic, 
> we actually had two separate gatherings, one for the greater 
> Dallas/Plano area and one for the Fort Worth area. I attended the Fort 
> Worth group gathering. Sometimes we had around a dozen attendees and 
> even a newbie or two and sometimes we only had three or four of the 
> old timer hardened contesters. Whatever, we always had an enjoyable 
> time sharing details of current projects, technical talks, or maybe 
> just swapping radio and other kinds of war stories.
>
> When I was preparing to move to North Carolina I was glad to see that 
> a couple of local groups of DXers had similar gatherings. I greatly 
> looked forward to attending these on a regular basis. I had the great 
> misfortune of making my relocation move just in time for everything to 
> get shut down by the virus pandemic, so right now my only "social" 
> outlet has become the computer screen. It just ain't the same. There's 
> just no good substitute for the face-to-face interaction of these 
> kinds of gatherings. Of course in the current situation we just 
> couldn't do them even if we wanted to.
>
> I also remember about 30 years or more back, when the Mad River Radio 
> Club had their weekly sessions on 3825? kHz. Those were always 
> well-attended and kept the club members up on what everyone else was 
> doing. We all have a bunch or radio capability; maybe it would be 
> possible to use it to stay in touch with each other. Just a thought.
>
> 73...
> Randy, W8FN
>
> On 11/11/2020 12:05 AM, Jeff Clarke wrote:
>> ... Not really sure why no one else wants to discuss contesting. I 
>> remember back when I first joined SECC I made the suggestion about 
>> maybe have occasionally having in person meetings. That idea was shot 
>> down by many. If you're an internet based club like we are and have 
>> very little activity on the reflector and if your not willing to have 
>> an occasional in person meeting that's not good.
>
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