John has my proxy...I know he knows this stuff better than anybody!
73 de Lee
On 22 Oct 2002 at 15:07, John Laney wrote:
> Second weekend in October is a bad idea. Pa QSO Party is a really big
> one and has been on that weekend forever. It is both Sat and Sun.
>
> Third weekend in October, if Saturday only, wouldn't conflict with IQP,
> but would conflict with WAG, which would take all the Europeans out on
> Saturday.
>
> Second weekend in April may be a very good idea. It still has the
> QRPARCI Spring contest (third weekend in Oct has the Fall contest), so
> we lose most of the QRP guys either way. The only major international
> contest is the annual CW JIDXC, with Japan working the world. We almost
> never have any entries from Japan or otherwise in Asia. Very few of us
> here in GA work the JIDXC.
>
> The European contests on that weekend are minor ones. The DIG CW Club
> (Germany) has one 12-17Z on Saturday and that wouldn't conflict with our
> hours at all. Same for their low band contests that weekend and the UBA
> (Belgium) contests. All during hours that our contest isn't in
> operation. The European SSB Sprint does conflict, but it is on only 80,
> 40, and 20 meters and runs from 15 to 19Z. The only possibility of
> contacts is on 20 meters. I have managed a handful of contacts in a CW
> European Sprint, but have never been able to hear any on SSB well enough
> to get a QSO (the QSY rule makes it really hard in fringe propagation
> areas). So, basically it seems to me that the published contests on the
> SM3CER contest page show NO conflicts of any significance except for the
> QRP contest that weekend. It would mean that we should be planning
> three months sooner and getting out the publicity that much sooner, as
> well as the results from GQP 2002. Of course, we could skip 2003 and go
> right to 2004, but that would invite someone else to step in and take
> that weekend. I vote strongly in favor of the second weekend in April.
>
> 73,
>
>
> John, K4BAI.
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Lee Hiers, AA4GA
Cornelia, Georgia
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