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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Further to my announcement above of Mark @M0NOM and Paul @G4IPB taking over from John G3WGV as the region managers for G/LD and G/NP respectively, I would now like to announce that Peter @G3TJE has decided to step down as region manager for both G/DC and G/SC. I would like to thank Peter G3TJE for being the region manager for both G/DC and G/SC for nearly 15 years now.
I was thinking about as to who the best candidates would be to become the region managers for G/DC and G/SC and thought John @M0WIV for G/DC and Tim @G5OLD for G/SC. I have been in contact with both John M0WIV and Tim G5OLD and they have agreed to become the region managers for G/DC and G/SC respectively so please join me in welcoming them as new region managers.
I can confirm that Richard @G3CWI, Jim @G0CQK and Phil @G4OBK have agreed to carry on as the region managers for G/SP, G/SB and G/TW respectively. I am still waiting to hear from Richard @G4ERP to see to he still wishes to carry on as region manager for G/CE and G/WB or to step down. I am also waiting to hear from David @G3RDQ to see if he wishes to carry on as region manager for G/SE or to step down.
Jimmy M0HGY
G - Association Manager
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