News from the ARRL regarding club competition...Gary, K9AY
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> Snipped from the ARRL web page
> http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2002/01/29/1/?nc=1
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> The Board also adopted the MSC's recommendations regarding club competition.
> In accordance with the advice of the ARRL Contest Advisory Committee, five
> specific changes were approved and will go into effect November 1, 2002,
> when the "General Rules for All ARRL Contests" are updated for the 2002-2003
> contest season. Under the revised ARRL club competition rules:
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> · The Board has altered the requirement that a member must attend at least
> two club meetings a year in order to be allowed to submit score for a club
> in the unlimited and medium categories. The new rules will allow
> participation by "a member in good standing," as defined by the club. "In
> part, this change recognizes that the dynamics of many clubs have changed,"
> said ARRL Contest Branch Manager Dan Henderson, N1ND. "Many clubs hold
> meetings on the air and on the Internet. Many clubs have large, active
> participation on club e-mail reflectors." Henderson said that by allowing
> clubs to define their own standard for "member in good standing," clubs can
> include more operators as active participants in contesting activities.
>
> · Medium and unlimited clubs now may define their club service area either
> as a 175-mile radius circle or as an entire ARRL section. This change will
> allow clubs from larger states than encompass entire ARRL sections to
> compete with each other. Clubs may select one definition or the other but
> not both.
>
> · The percentage of operators who must be members of a club in order for the
> club to claim a score from a multioperator station has been reduced from 66%
> to 50%.
>
> · A station owner no longer must be a member of a club in order for a guest
> operator at the station to claim the score for that club.
>
> · Canadian clubs that are full Radio Amateurs of Canada affiliates now may
> participate in the ARRL Affiliated Clubs Competition.
>
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