[Wswss] ARRL Southwestern Division e-Communicator

[Jim Lowman]

Like contests in general there will always be conflicts, seeing that 
there are
only 52 weekends in a year, and even some of those sometimes are in
conjunction with a holiday.

Typically, the ARRL Southwestern Division Convention is held in September or
October; usually the latter when it's Arizona's turn.  Yuma?  Did no club in
the greater Phoenix area want to sponsor the convention?  Well, at least
February in Yuma will be tolerable.

I guess there are now only three recurring venues of the convention, since
there hasn't been one in Riverside since 2005.  We are fortunate in this
division that the event is at three or four venues, allowing the sponsoring
organization ample time for planning.  Typically, we'd be meeting for two
years prior to the Riverside event, and in the meantime the respective
chairpersons would spend a lot of time securing vendors, inviting speakers,
promoting the convention and attending to all of the minute details that
are transparent to our guests.

It's a bit shocking, but not surprising, that some ARRL divisions no longer
have a convention.

After about a 10-year absence, we're looking forward to the convention
in Torrance this year.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 6/8/2011 7:39 PM, Richard J Norton, N6AA wrote:
> Marty has summed up the issues. Seemingly no matter which date is
> selected, there will be some who will be offended.
>
> Typically, the convention falls on the first weekend after Labor Day,
> which is likely to conflict with the VHF Contest. It is up to the
> sponsoring organization to pick the date. I am happy that we still
> have groups willing to put the conventions on, as there are no
> division conventions anymore in many of the ARRL divisions.
>
> As Marty also said, 2012's is in February, because the group that will
> sponsor it, will do so in February.
>
> 73,
>
> Dick, N6AA, VHF Contest Flyweight
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Marty Woll<n6vi at socal.rr.com>  wrote:
>> Hi, Ralph.
>>
>> I'm with you on this, but the sponsoring clubs, not ARRL or its officials,
>> choose the convention dates.  I have lobbied for a long time about this, but
>> we have to work it forward several years due to the long lead time required
>> to secure a venue for the convention.  Actually, last year's SWD
>> convention (San Diego) was not on the contest weekend (but was on Yom
>> Kippur, upsetting several people who otherwise would have attended), and
>> next year (Yuma) will be in February, far from any VHF contest date but, as
>> usual, in conflict with the ARRL DX CW weekend.
>>
>> If you want to know how much pull I have in these matters, consider that, in
>> most years, the ARRL Board meeting in CT is the same weekend as the ARRL
>> January VHF SS, taking me out of the running of that one most of the time.
>> Too many events . . . not enough weekends!
>>
>> I'll talk to you from Frazier this weekend.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Marty N6VI
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: k6tsk at juno.com
>> To: memberlist at www.arrl.org ; Worm at Alert
>> Cc: n6aa at arrl.org ; n6vi at arrl.org ; vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu ;
>> wswss at mailman.qth.net
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 2:06 PM
>> Subject: Re: ARRL Southwestern Division e-Communicator
>> Hay guys, why is it that The Southwestern Div. Convention is also held
>> during the Sept. VHF contest???????
>> Will this ever change????
>>
>> 73
>