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Times Are Changing: Improved Club Competition!
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by wx3b on February 7, 2002
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I read the ARRL Club competition improvements with excitement and ancitipation.
The name of the game in the contesting world is to have a fresh crop of new opererators who enter the sport each year. These new guidelines go a long way to easing some of the burdons on clubs and their members.
I look forward to hearing some new voices on the bands during contests; we might even work some stations that we can't find in our MASTER.DTA databases!
73,
Jim Nitzberg WX3B
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by k4oj on February 14, 2002
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Several of the proposed changes are very good for the contesting community. Unfortunately the re-defining of a club terriotry still does not help the Florida Contest Group.
As always we in Florida suffer from our unique peninsula shape...guess its just the price we pay for near 365 days a year to do antenna work!
The radius rule leaves a large portion of our turf in the surf....and the ARRL section option would only further divide us as there are 3 ARRL sections in Florida. Our goal is to have a rule where all Floridians can submit scores in the ARRL Affiliated Club Competition under one entity.
I appreciate that this is a tough issue and several years ago we visited it with the CAC - unfortunately this change of selecting either the radius or a section will only benefit state based clubs which contain only one section and ours does not.
In the past grid squares were looked at as criteria (but they are not all equal in size) and square mileage was looked at but it was decided this was too hard to calculate.
Currently the Florida Contest Group suffers in that we have to have two sub-divisions - only because of the ARRL limitations. Our panhandle division does not fit within the radius - but its area is equal to the amount of ocean that does lie within the circle.
I laud the ARRL's asking for you to use either or but not both the radius and the section method. Clubs that indeed want to be one state clubs, that have but one section in them, can now say their state club includes all their state...alas we cannot.
It is a step in the right direction, perhaps some day the fact that the square mileage of the state of Florida is equivilant to that of a 175 mile diameter circle over land can be somehow written in...
73, GL to everyone in the ARRL DX CW this weekend!
Jim, K4OJ
founder - The Floirda Contest Group
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