Holding the Stew this in a weekend before Christmas, rather than between
Christmas and New Years, seems to have substantially boosted EU
participation this year.
This is over and above the very nice conditions we had to EU.
I contrast with some other recent years where the Stew was held between
Christmas and New Years and I felt conditions were fine to EU but there
were very very few EU callers.
I'm not sure that the contesting calendar will always support the choice of
a pre-Christmas date. This past weekend the Stew, the Winter RAC, and the
OK RTTY contests were all on the same weekend and the Stew seemed to have
done just great in terms of turnout.
Tim N3QE
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