FWIW, the Central Texas DX & Contest Club is in something of a
similar situation. Most of the membership is in South Texas (STX), but we
have several active contesters living in the southern parts of North
Texas (NTX) section, and there's no way a 175 mile or 275 km radius circle
will encompass all of our Texas members:
http://www.ctdxcc.org/maps/
> Joe,
> Look at http://www.w0aa.org/about_map.htm. The MWA did a lot of tweaking in
> an attempt to include as many people as possible but we're still missing out
> on a lot of Northern part of the state. If we went the "or section" route,
> we'd lose western Wisconsin.
> 73 Steve K0SR
>
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:14:54AM +0000, steve.root@culligan4water.com wrote:
> > However, I do
> >not know of another case (other than TCG which provided the
> >impetus for the "one section" rule in ARRL contests) where
> >there is a single contest club covering an entire state and
> >the state is too long/wide to be completely circumscribed
> >by a 175 mile circle.
> >
> >73,
> >
> > ... Joe, W4TV
> >
>
>
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