Maybe it's time for a re-vote, now that we have managed to analyze all the
problems with the April schedule. I agree that anchoring the contest on
Easter would confuse just about everyone and produce a new conflict every
year. The Saturday only idea might work. How about 12 hours...0900-2100
Eastern Time? Somewhat civilized.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Laney" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: <secc@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: [SECC] GQP-2004
> The problem with having consistency by having the GQP so many weekends
> from Easter each year is that there is no telling what contest we would
> conflict with. This would be the most inconsistent scheduling of all.
> We would sometimes conflict with WPX SSB, with Mother's Day (which GQP
> did for years in the 60s and 70s and we decided not to do that again)
> and no one would know the date from year to year.
>
> I personally favored having it as a Saturday only event in 2004, but I
> was outvoted.
>
> 73,
>
>
> John, K4BAI.
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