As long as no one active is booted, I think it's a fine idea.
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:37 AM, John Laney <k4bai at att.net> wrote:
> John, AD8J, and I have been having a discussion about possibly moving our
> center of the club circles just a few miles to accommodate John's new remote
> location, which is about 4 miles outside our circles. This is near
> Asheville, NC, where John lives. I asked him to come up with a new center
> for our circles that would include his remote location and, if possible, to
> include K2SX at Pawley's Island, SC, but not leave out the W1BO/AJ1F
> location in Phenix City, AL. Unfortunatley, John's work indicates that it
> is not possible to include Pawley's Island and Phenix City in a 175 mile or
> 275 km radius circle. However, if the center location is moved slightly
> north, it will include John's remote QTH and still include W1BO/AJ1F.
>
> I will print below John's message, which gives a link to the CQ circle and
> the ARRL circle based on a proposed new center location. Looking at it, I
> don't see clearly that anyone presently active with the club within the
> circle would be moved outside the circle. Please look at the proposed new
> circles and let me know ASAP if you notice anyone in that category. Do we
> still all our active members in NW GA? I asssume N4DU in Albany is well
> within the circle. An added bonus to the new circle is that it would
> include all of Charlotte, where there a big ham population not served by any
> other contest club, whereas the current circle includes only part of
> Charlotte.
>
> Please post any comments to the reflector. After a week of exposure, I will
> review comments and, if we wouldn't disenfranchise anyone, propose a vote on
> the new center of the circles. This could be a very positive step for the
> club. We have lost a lot of active members' scores to ACG, GCG, and SFCG in
> recent years and we'd benefit from AD8J's scores from his remote QTH plus
> any new members we could pick up in the eastern part of Charlotte.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to consider this proposal. 73, John, K4BAI,
> President SECC.
>
> You can't have AJ1F/W1BO and K2SX in either the ARRL or CQ circles as the
> distance between their QTHs is 355.63 miles or 572.33 km. The max distance
> to fit in the circles are 350 miles for ARRL and 550 km for CQ.
>
> You can have AJ1F/W1BO and AD8J in both circles by using the following
> lat/lon:
>
> 33.32N 82.36W
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> Here is the link to the CQ page with the map and circle:
>
> http://www.mapdevelopers.com/draw-circle-tool.php?circles=%5B%5B275000%2C33.3151086%2C-82.3606912%2C%22%23AAAAAA%22%2C%22%23000000%22%5D%5D
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> Here is the link to the ARRL page with the map and circle:
>
> http://www.mapdevelopers.com/draw-circle-tool.php?circles=%5B%5B281634.5%2C33.3200433%2C-82.3601415%2C%22%23AAAAAA%22%2C%22%23000000%22%5D%5D
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> This also picks up all of Charlotte.
>
>
> John Getz
> 24 Stony Ridge
> Asheville, NC 28804
> 828-424-7145
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