[LCC] K5ER response to: LA QSO Party may be gone

[Art Suberbielle]

LA QSO Party used to be a favorite of mine. Due to conflicts of late, I have not participated. The date is the key to success. The present date has the RTTY conflict, so why not find 2 or 3 other possible dates and poll the membership? One possibility is having it on the same weekend as another state party. More activity for out of state participants. Also need to keep it away from a week before or after a major event, in my opinion.


Can't work on the committee, but can offer them some advice on promotion. I presently handle th eCWops miniCWT and FOC QSO Party.


73,


Art KZ5D




-----Original Message-----
From: Mark, K5ER <k5er at arrl.net>
To: LCC <LCC at louisianacontestclub.org>
Sent: Mon, Aug 22, 2011 7:29 pm
Subject: [LCC] K5ER response to:  LA QSO Party may be gone


I just read W5WZ's post, and having been an officer in the same generalinterest club for 19 years, can verify his comments. Once theThibodeaux club took over the LAQP and thepressure was off, either Scott or myself as single ops, or the pair, as amulti-op with K5CZD, have won our entry category in the LAQP for the past6 years. Some of us have NOT lost interest in the LAQP!

Some time back, W5EW, did approach the LCC to discuss thepossibility of LCC taking over sponsorship of the LAQP. At the time, theclub was less than 2 years old old, and had only about 2 dozen members.At the time, we were still trying to establish our own identity anddirection for the LCC, and the group voted not to accept theresponsibility at that time. Since that time, interest and participationby Louisiana contesters has continued to increase and Louisiana is nolonger a rare multiplier. 

Fast forward to now. The LCC is growing, and we now have just shy of 48members, including some of the top contesters in the state, who bringyears of experience and knowledge to the table. A couple of us havecasually kicked the idea around, and think it might be a good idea forthe LCC to now step up and assume the sponsorship. 

SO, to see where we are, lets try a poll. If we demonstrate enoughinterest, I'll bring it to the board so we can determine how to presentit at the next meeting. IF you think the LCC should take on the LAQP,either send a message to the reflector, or to me personally, with a yes /no, and any comments on the subject. 

What I DO NOT want to do is saddle our current Sec/Treas with thesole responsibility. If we decide to do this, with board input, I wouldappoint a LAQP committee, of probably 3 to 5 people to insure continuityand spread the load. At a minimum, they would be tasked with thefollowing:
1. reviewing the rules
2. suggesting any changes
3. advertising the event
4. writing/borrowing software to do log checking
5. have a representative available to answer email questions frompotential entrants
6. insure the current logging software authors are aware of anyrule/scoring changes
7. post the results in a timely manner on the club's website

So first, is there enough interest to consider this? Second, If we followthrough with this, who has the time/ knowledge/ desire to be on thecommittee. Remember, this is OUR club, and would be OUR responsibility.It would also be our opportunity to build the LAQP into a nationallyrecognized event that folks WANT to participate in and have"bragging rights" for winning.

73,
Mark, K5ER
President,
Louisiana Contest Club
 
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