Jim N6IG wrote:
|If you think we have strong opinions on this, you are correct.
So do we - Please read on.
|A compromise "solution" has been suggested to this issue which I
|personally don't have a problem with. Perhaps a new club category
|could be created between "Local" and "Medium" called "Regional".
|It could have say 25 members within a radius of maybe 40 miles or so.
|In the respect that it doesn't tinker with existing rules, I support it.
This is the solution we strongly favor in Central Texas. By numbers I would
guess we are a typical "Local" club, but geographically a 20-mile radius
cuts out several members, some of whom commute 40 miles to work in Austin
daily.
|BUT, it will still have the effect of diluting other existing club's
|scores if entrants are forced to choose one and only one club for
|which to submit their score. If an entrant could choose ANY TWO
|category clubs under whose banner her/she could submit a score,
|I don't see any problems.
Irrelevant in Texas - The next club is 200 miles away! That's why expansion
of the radius is so important. Our people excluded by the tiny 20-mile
radius have nowhere else to go!
John, NT5C.
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