[Rdxa-bod] k2cs report

[Ken Boasi]

Folks,

Here's my contest report.  I will not be in attendance at the meeting 
tomorrow night.

We are roughly halfway through the contest season; we still have six 
major club contests coming up (ARRL DX both modes, CQ 160 both modes, 
and CQ WPX both modes) in addition to the numerous non-club contests 
that are upcoming, such as NAQP (all modes), NA Sprint (all modes), 
Russian DX, BARTG, etc.

Attached to this email is the map showing the redrawn club circle, with 
the center located on the agreed-upon spot at the club's meeting place 
on Scottsville Rd.  We can place this on the website and update it as 
needed.

More importantly, one of my jobs as contest coordinator is to determine 
the eligibility of those who submit scores to the RDXA aggregate; in 
simple terms, we have to make sure that anyone who submits a score on 
behalf of RDXA is within the club circle, and a paid member in good 
standing.  If someone can e-mail me the latest club roster, I'll plot 
everyone on the map and make sure we are all eligible; I imagine that we 
are, but it is always god to make sure we are playing by the rules.

With the ARRL DX contests coming up, I'd like to have the BOD look at 
two proposals, submitted to me by club members, that involve the club's 
involvement in the contests.

One proposal called for us to engage in a friendly competition with our 
neighbors to the east, the Hudson Valley Contesters and DXers.  The 
idea, simply, is to have a higher club score than the HVCDX group.  Last 
year, we were behind them by about 5.5 million points (26.7 million to 
21.2 million points).  To do this, we would need to seriously ramp up 
participation from more club members.  As a reminder, last year, W2FU 
contributed 11.2 million (half!), 6W/WJ2O contributed 2.3 million, AI2N 
contributed 1.1 million, and V31AM contributed 4.5 million...that adds 
up to 19.1 million out of 21.2 million coming from just 4 operations.

That's something to think about this year, especially considering Redd, 
Dave, and I will be contributing only one score from PZ instead of three 
individual scores.  Also, if W2FU is not a member (the last roster I 
have doesn't list him as being one), and the majority of his ops aren't, 
then we can't legally count scores from his M/M anymore...sorry to say, 
but it is true, per the ARRL contest rules:

"8.5.2. At least 50% of the operators at a multi-operator station must 
be eligible members of the club and the station must be located within 
the defined club territory. The owner of the station does not need to be 
a member of the club claiming the score".

I'll leave you guys to toss this one around.

The final thing, is that the Field Day results have been published for 
some time now, and we were #3 in WNY overall, and #2 in 2A in WNY, 
having about half the score of the #1 station in WNY in 2A.  So, since 
it is that time again, we should start having the discussion about Field 
Day 2012.

Since we did the fun and relaxed version of FD last year, after years of 
"serious, exclusionary contesting", I guess the theme this year is "What 
Do We Want To Be When We Grow Up?".

Enjoy!

-Ken





On 1/9/12 9:01 AM, Chris Shalvoy wrote:
> all,
>
> good morning,
>
> as with all tuesdays (until april) i'm tied up.
>
> dx stuff - we'll need to purchase additional credits for cards, we're
> down to under 10.
>
> received a buro pack around christmas and irv has some cards to be sent
> out thru the buro as well.
>
> on lotw, we're currently credited with 122 oa dxcc - 98 confirmed on cw.
> we hold WAS mixed, cw and ssb.
>
> for everyone's information - there are currently 341 total (non deleted)
> countries, 332 needed for honor roll.
>
> i've updated the 1 page dxcc "cheat sheet" (that i still use) and will
> get that in the bulletin as well as on the website.
>
> still awaiting a final date on the 60m proposal and when the additional
> modes, power and frequency realignment will occur.
>
> that's all for now,
> chris, k2cs
>
>
>
>
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