The reason is in 2007 East Cairn Law became a Marilyn and the incumbent AM was a friend of Richard’s or John’s and had been Shanghai’d into being AM. I was promoted to AM because I was prepared to do the paper work to add the new summit so I could get 1st activation and he was desperately trying to find a willing volunteer to take over! The rest is history. It had taken my predecessor 4 and bit years to find a fool prepared to take over never mind another 6 RMs as well.
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Do region managers serve any useful role? It seems to be a redundant layer of “management” to me. I’m a region manager and I have had nothing to do for well over a decade.
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I am also in that role for OE/OO and if there are no changes in summits it is fairly quiet but everyone is free to:
- be a promoter for SOTA in the region by for example give talks at local ham clubs
- organize meetups/ SOTA days
- answer questions of guest visiting
- support the Association manager
- run local diploma initiatives
and so on
73 Joe
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Yes they do but mainly in new associations. Some AMs get help/input from their RMs when there are updates to be done.
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Probably of limited value in a geographically small Association such as G but arguably necessary when the Association is large with significant regional differences.
Agree. In the early days of my now former RM regions I did a fair amount of local research and documentation. Once done it tends to not change much.
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