Dave, As I'm sure have other colleagues in their Divisions, I dealt with the (so far) one shot over the bow from the GLD. As isn't too surprising, he is going: - to participate in the EME test operations, but not in the formal contest, - to let his membership expire, and, I'm guessing, - to secede from the US. We'll see what future E-mail holds. 73, Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: k8je@arrl.org, Tel.: 513-459-1661 ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio _____ From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 9:33 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:17996] EME contest rules Overnight a few "shotgun" messages to Board members complaining about recent EME Contest rules changes showed up. The background on these rules changes is in an attachment to the VUAC report, Document 31 of the July meeting. We're working on getting the Board meeting committee reports, including this one, posted on the Web site; they should be up shortly so inquirers can be referred to the report. Dave K1ZZ