Just an idea to toss around a little.
I was thinking about the Huntsville hamfest and the NAQP SSB contest being
on the same weekend when it occurred to me that this would have been a great
opportunity to get some folks fired up about contesting. If we could borrow
a few pieces of equipment, set up a good wire antenna system at the hamfest
and a "portable" contest station it might be a lot of fun. One member could
sit with the contesters and guide them through what to do and actually be
the control operator. We could have prizes for Novice, Technician, General
etc. ......Each contestant gets 20 minutes at the rig or x minutes. It
would be some work and we might want to team up with the ACG. The biggest
prizes would be for the Novice, Tech, General "beginner" class. There
would be a lot of details to work out and it would not work this year
because it is too close to plan now. Maybe we don't keep score, but you
have to operate the station for 20 minutes to be eligible for the drawing so
we separate the $ from the operating.
Just my 2 cents. It could be fun though. The NAQP SSB would have been
perfect with wires.
73 de Greg NM2L, Sugar Hill, GA
> WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM YOUR CLUB?
>
> As mentioned last week, the SECC officers exchanged e-mails, discussing
> whether there are any enhancements to the SECC that we could affect or
> whether the membership is happy with the status quo. We are particularly
> interested in generating greater membership participation in contests, but
> we want to know if somehow, we can make membership in the SECC more
> enjoyable.
> We have no intention of changing anything in the constitution that would
> remove any member from the roles of the SECC membership, even though the
> constitution, as written, requires that members submit at least two scores
> for SECC annually. However, we may want to consider some revision of that
> provision.
> What we will be doing is encouraging more membership participation in
> contesting. We will be doing that positively, by rewarding recognition of
> the members of this club who DO participate for the SECC.
> We have a club membership of some 215 contesters in the SECC, however,
> less than 10% actively submit scores in support of the club. We
> understand that there are a multitude of reasons that one might not submit
> scores and what we'd like to know, is there something more that you want
> out of your club? Our ultimate goal is to give you what you wish so you'll
> WANT to participate in more contests in support of YOUR club.
> Some of the things the SECC officers have been discussing are:
> 1) Modify the Constitution so the Officer elections are held two months
> in advance of them actually taking office. I, personally, found this to be
> very useful in making the transition.
> 2) Establish quick access hyper-links with SM7CER and WA7MBN contest
> calendars on the SECC website.
> 3) Establish links for contest-beginner FAQ's, providing useful
> information for those who may want to get into contesting.
> 4) Provide a tutorial on the most popular contest software programs, such
> as N1MM Logger, WriteLog, SD, etc.
> 5) Provide information about upcoming webinars. What are they? How do you
> sign up for one? Provide notification and links for SECC sponsored
> webinars.
> 6) Establish a "SECC Contester of the Year" award for the person who has
> the highest cumulative contest scores from August 1, 2010 to August 1,
> 2011.
> 7) Establish a "SECC Member of the Year" award for the member who Elmer's
> the most hams into contesting.
> 8) Establish an informal social meeting at the Byron, Ga. (near Macon)
> ham fest. (May 2011)
> 9) The SECC is primarily a reflector club. Meaning all information is
> distributed via the reflector and it therefore makes sense to highly
> recommend that each member join the SECC reflector.
> While these are some of the issues we have been discussing, nothing has
> been decided yet as we want to hear from the members on how or what they
> think the officers and the membership can do to enhance the enjoyment of
> the club. What do you think needs to be done, if anything at all? We need
> to hear from you, hopefully within the next 30 days so we can serve the
> club membership as the majority desires.
> Tom - W4BQF
> President - SECC
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