[NLRS] Fwd: Club Competitiion for ARRL Contests

[W0ZQ at aol.com]

Hello NLRS land.   Two piece of information for  you.

1.  As many of you may be aware, the ARRL maintains a Contest  Advisory 
Committee (CAC) that from time to time provides input to  the League on issue 
concerning contesting.   Recently the League  realized that many of the issues and 
discussions concerning VHF/UHF contesting  are, well, rather unique to VHF/UHF 
so a second VHF/UHF contest advisory  committee is being created.   I have 
been asked by Jay, and have  accepted, to represent the Dakota Division on this 
committee.     The VHF/UHF committee is still in its infancy stage and is just 
now starting to  be formed.    I believe that the realization that VHF/UHF  
contesting has its own unique set of issues is a forward step by the League and 
 I look forward in serving in the capacity of your VHF CAC  representative.

2.    Al Dewey, K0AD, is our Dakota  Division (HF) CAC representative.    As 
the VHF CAC is still  forming, the League has asked its current (HF) CAC 
members the following  question : 

"Is your club satisfied with the scoring system (calculation  of the final 
club score) for the Affiliated Club competition?  If not,  please let me know of 
your specific concerns and include examples, if  possible."

If you have some thoughts on this subject, please email them  to Al, K0AD, at 
Aldewey at aol.com and please CC: me.   One subject that  may be applicable for 
discussion is how rover scores are counted .... for  example an issue that has 
not happened yet, but will, is when one of these grid  circling one-million 
point rovers puts down an affiliated club .... so far they  have not done that. 
   Another hassle factor for rovers is  keeping track of QSOs that are inside 
versus outside of the clubs service  area.    
 
Please give this some consideration and send your thoughts to Al, and CC:  me.

Questions/comments welcomed.

73,  Jon
W0ZQ