CW WPX Weekend Change

[W5ASP at aol.com]

re: Changing the CQ WPX CW Weekend

This is one instance where another "me to" may be worthwhile....

Yes, definitely let's do everything we can to have WPX CW moved into April.

Over the past ten years I've operated WPX CW as /ZF8 (twice),  V31KF, /GM0,
ZF1A, VP5Z, and from W5. In each case traveling over the Memorial Day weekend
has been the source of problems of one sort or another. (Yes, it's only a
stateside holiday, BUT... lots of folks take vacations over that long
weekend, and more often than not, it's a real zoo out there...) Making late
reservations of any kind is nearly impossible... and those you think you had
nailed down way ahead of time can suddenly disappear. 

And more importantly, the accompanying investment of time, effort and money
with only the expectation of so-so band conditions definitely takes some of
the zest out ot it. Poor propagation and crashing low band QRN just doesn't
go to making happy campers. 

I've never quite understood why we waste the entire eight week period
following WPX Phone without a single major contest while the conditions are
reasonably good. One punishment tour with IARU is enough for the summertime.
Fortunately they cut that one back to 24 hours! 

Obviously, I think it's a great contest, especialy for a single op. And I
plan to be somewhere come the end of May. BUT, I hope that next year we can
all thank Steve, N8BJQ and the folks at CQ for making a wise decision to
change the date. 

Thanks for listening...

73, Joe, W5ASP


>From andriusi at siauliai.omnitel.net (Andrius Ignotas)  Tue Feb 11 09:06:06 1997
From: andriusi at siauliai.omnitel.net (Andrius Ignotas) (Andrius Ignotas)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 09:06:06 GMT
Subject: LY2BTA RSGB 1.8 CW TEST RESULT
Message-ID: <199702110906.JAA12852 at pikuolis.omnitel.net>


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CALL:     LY2BTA
COUNTRY:  LITHUANIA
OPERATOR: ANDRIUS IGNOTAS
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COUNTIES: 35
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RIG: ICOM 737 +PA 1000W
ANT: DELTA LOOP


NICE TEST BUT SMALL ACTIVITTY!
73!ANDY LY2BTA


>From timo.klimoff at ktm.vn.fi (Klimoff Timo)  Tue Feb 11 08:44:42 1997
From: timo.klimoff at ktm.vn.fi (Klimoff Timo) (Klimoff Timo)
Date: 11 Feb 97 10:44:42 +0200
Subject: WPX CW WEEKEND
Message-ID: <9702111044.aa42 at ktmtiimi1.ktm.vn.fi>

Hi everyone!

Holiday weekend (long weekend) means to me usually that I can operate
without taking any extra day-off from my job(Monday). This year is nice because
WPX SSB is easter weekend!
The end of May means lots of nice E-skip propagation on 10/15m and possibility
to have some night openings on 20m to US. 

Now, I would like to change IARU weekend ... SRAL Summer Summit is every year
overlapping this nice contest!

73 Timo OH1NOA
Contest Club Finland and one of OH1AF gang 
 

>From readerl at goliath.sunyocc.edu (Larry Reader)  Tue Feb 11 13:35:46 1997
From: readerl at goliath.sunyocc.edu (Larry Reader) (Larry Reader)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 97 08:35:46 -0500
Subject: DXpeditions for ARRL DX Phone
Message-ID: <9702111335.AA08613 at goliath.sunyocc.edu>

The WP2Z team for ARRL DX Phone is busy packing and making sure we haven't
forgotten anything.  We'd love to know which other of the "usual" (or
unusual) DX contest sites will be active and what catagory they'll be
playing in (always fun to know who the competition is!)

We'll start.  WP2Z will be a Multi 2 entry for the ARRL DX Phone contest.
Ops KE2VB, K2ZJ and K2ZL.

73

Larry
KE2VB
Trustee, Island Villa Contest Club
Windwood, USVI - WP2Z 


>From km9p at contesting.com (Bill Fisher, N4VJ & K4AAA)  Tue Feb 11 13:57:53 1997
From: km9p at contesting.com (Bill Fisher, N4VJ & K4AAA) (Bill Fisher, N4VJ & K4AAA)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 08:57:53 -0500 (EST)
Subject: CW WPX Weekend Change
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970211085412.10546A-100000 at paris.akorn.net>


So now that everyone (well almost) agrees this contest would be a lot more
fun in April than in May.... What do we do about it?   

Where's N8BJQ in this process?  We should be cc'ing him with all of this
mail.  What about K1AR?  He's still the guy for contests at CQ right?  

WHY HASN'T THIS CONTEST MOVED ALREADY ???

Bill


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