[PaQSO] Re: (PAQSO) Revive Club Award

[Michael Coslo]

On Jul 18, 2006, at 10:07 PM, w3tdf at juno.com wrote:

 >Mike  (and other interested Club Trophy enthusiasts),

 >I would also like to know about the whereabouts of the old
 >'Club Champions' Award/plaque.


	We have it at our mountaintop station.


 >I am a member of the DLARC and was unofficially appointed
 >the Club-PAQSO Chairman, as I was instrumental in badgering
 >the membership to get in there and win that trophy.

 >The Trophy was started in 1983 and for the first 6 years was won
 >3 times each by Radio Assoc of Erie,  and Murgas ARC,  after
 >which the DLARC won it 8 times out of the following 10 years.

 >(I have a picture of the trophy taken in 1991).

 >The last year we won it was 1998, at which time there was only
 >room on the brass plate for 5 more inscriptions, subsequently,
 >I would guess, the trophy was retired.

	I'm not exactly sure why the trophy was retired.

	A traveling trophy - ala the Stanley cup has some nice elements, and  
a couple real drawbacks. There is a wonderful historic aspect to it,  
and the one year ownership is great.

	The downsides are that like the Stanley cup, any traveling trophy  
with yearly inscription has to eventually be retired, and a new one  
takes it place. The Stanley has been reworked several times, and the  
NARC club trophy is in that stage now.

	And we have to deal with getting it to and from the winning clubs.

	Another little psychological problem is that perhaps some interest  
was lost in the club competition trophy by the great success among a  
few clubs.  To me the main idea of competition would be to try to  
unseat the previous winners - but maybe a lot of people just gave up.  
I think that maybe the high club average trophy, another retired one  
- was an attempt to get the competitive juices going among the rest  
of the folks.  This is not to disparage the clubs that continually  
put in the good effort and win - it is more a "Let's go do it!"  for  
the rest of us.

	Some people with a longer historical perspective might have greater  
insight in this matter.

	But whatever - I think having a club trophy is a good idea.


 >Under these circumstances the DLARC would have been the
 >winningest club for the useable life of it, and I therefore feel that
 >the rightful place for it should be at the DLARC clubhouse.

	Yoiks! Let's not go there!


 >As for re-instituting this award, I am in favor of same.


	At this point, I'm just about certain that it will be reinstated.  
There will be some details that need to be worked out. What follows  
is  >>>>unofficial <<<<< so far, but I'm looking at:

A new club trophy that will go to the winning club, and stay with the  
winning club.

Certificates for the operators

Second through ? place will receive certificates - a club  
certificate, and one for each of the operators.

I will post the winners on the website. I believe I can dig the data  
up, but may need some help from youze guys to fill in from the past.

	Again, this is unofficial, and not been decided on yet.

-73 de Mike KB3EIA -