<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff" STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;background-color:#ffffff; "><DIV>Clay</DIV> <DIV> I think you may have answered you question. Membership spread over a 50 mile area. It sounds like you are not close enough for people to travel to the contests.</DIV> <DIV>I live in Georgia and there are about 8- 10 active pattern flyers in the whole state. We now have one contest in the state.</DIV> <DIV>Did you advertise? That has a lot to do with it. The more adv. the better.</DIV> <DIV>Don't get discouraged, we are a select few that fly pattern. However there is a lot of help and info for the asking. Windy? If the wind didn't blow it wouldn't be a contest.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jim Ivey</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: black"><B>From:</B> Clay Schmidt</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 23, 2003 9:49 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> discussion@nsrca.org</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> It was lonely out here</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My name is Clay Schmidt and I am the President of the Model Association of Central Kansas. MACK is a small club dead center in the middle of Kansas. Our membership is spread over a 50 mile area centered over the Great Bend and Larned area.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This last weekend, June 21st and 22nd MACK hosted a pattern contest. We ended up with seven contestants and two of those contestants are club members. As you can imagine we are very disappointed in the turn out and I was hoping that some of you that fly pattern, and would possibly come to Central Kansas, would indulge us with a little information or suggestions so we can increase the participation in our contest. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've listened to a lot of speculation, and "how comes" but I would like to hear directly from anyone why our event for the most part was not on the "Contest Trail." Is it because you didn't know about it? Is the date bad,,too close to other contests or in conflict with other contests?, You don't want to come to Central Kansas ( Rural)? Traditionally too windy? Poorly run? What ever the reason I'd like to know.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for listening and for your time. Anyone with input can email me directly at <A href="mailto:clay1@grapevine.net">clay1@grapevine.net</A>. Again, we really want to host a premier event and your input could very well help us do that.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Clay</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>