Never know what the weather might be like when an emergency hits, so guess
preparing in the extremes makes other times of the year easier.
After all, FD is not a contest! We know this because QST prints the line
scores for it.
Upload your FD log to LOTW-in 2027 maybe!
73 John AF5CC
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---- On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 14:11:36 -0500 Ron Notarius W3WN via CQ-Contest
<cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote ---
Well, for one thing, there aren't a lot of weekends in April and May that
aren't busy -- and I don't just mean from an Amateur Radio standpoint.
Even for those weekends that might work (MIGHT being the operative word), you'd have
to be concerned about other events on nearby weekends -- Hamvention certainly, other
major regional events as well, to say nothing of various special events and
DXpeditions and such that will inevitably crop up.. You'd be bumping up
against a lot of long-tenured events whose organizers might not be very happy about
the effects on their events... and would no doubt be resistant to cutting back or
moving theirs.
And yes, while the weather was uncomfortably if not dangerously hot this weekend in much
of North America -- my club's FD was one of the ones cancelled due to concerns about the
weather -- it is not always so. There have been plenty of FD's of comfortable
conditions -- and rainy, and cold and miserable, etc. It's the nature of the beast,
so to speak.
In short: FD ain't broke. Don't fix it.
73, ron 232n
On Sunday, June 23, 2024 at 01:17:55 PM EDT, Barry W2UP
<mailto:w2up.co@gmail.com> wrote:
For most of the US, it's uncomfortably hot on FD, not only this year, but
almost every year. Why not move it to April or May, or even the same
weekend as European FD?
Barry W2UP
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