[CQ-Contest] Why I Won't Be in CQWW CW This Year

[Steve Daniel]

And I see the Thanksgiving weekend as an advantage. You have Thursday and
Friday to get ready, be well rested and ready to go. With a Thursday holiday
your eating out/cleaning up obligations are behind you. The years I hate are
those one in seven or so when the contest does not fall on the same weekend
as Thanksgiving. GL. Steve, NN4T.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Clarke" <ku8e1 at yahoo.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 10:21 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Why I Won't Be in CQWW CW This Year


>
>
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>  If you are a CW contester you are basically screwed when it comes
> to the contests that CQ Magazine sponsors. The two major CW contests
> they sponsor fall on holiday weekends in the US - WPX CW is Memorial
> Day weekend and CQWW DX CW on Thanksgiving weekend. So if you have to
> choose between family stuff and doing the contest some of us have to
> make a choice between the two. The answer I have always got when I
> brought this up to someone associated with CQ is they will not change
> the dates because most of the participation is outside of the USA. I
> don't see why they couldn't rotate the CW/SSB weekends from year to
> year. This would be a good compromise....
>
>                     Jeff KU8E
>
> ps : I will also be missing CQWW CW too because I will be in Danbury,CT
> on Thanksgiving weekend. We will be driving and I will have the radio
> in the car to hand out some points though....  Might be open to
> visiting
> a multi-op for a few hours to see what it is like from the east coast..
> Anyone ???
>
>
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