[CQ-Contest] RTTY WPX and NA Sprint CW this weekend

[Mike]

Does anyone know when the Feb CW Sprint was moved from the
1st weekend in February to the second? My computer logs going
back to Feb 1996 show that the contest has been held on the
second weekend. I did not operate in 1995, but in 1994 I have
a paper log from the phone contest showing that it was held on the
second weekend (I made a brief appearance using the name "Spanky").
This suggest that the switch between the first weekend and the second
weekend was made in either 1995 or 1996. I seem to recall from
operations in the late 80's when the contest was run on the first
weekend that where there was some minimal overlap with the FOC
contest.

How old is the CQ/RJ RTTY Contest and why hasn't this issue
come up before?

73 de Mike, W4EF.....................

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Clarke" <ku8e1 at yahoo.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 6:37 AM
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] RTTY WPX and NA Sprint CW this weekend


>
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> DK2SN wrote :
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>  "I have the impression, that for the people behind the NCJ, any
> bandplan and any deeper knowledge about propagation must be
> a never understandable great miracle??? When they will do
> their "homework" and when they will start with: "THINK GLOBAL"?"
>
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>  If I am not mistaken the NA Sprints have been around since the 1970's.
> The WPX RTTY is a fairly new contest so maybe the folks at CQ should
> of done their "homework " before they scheduled it the same weekend ???
>
>  Personally, I don't think there will be a big problem as long as the
> RTTY contesters just stay above 7050 for the few hours that the Sprint
> will be going on...
>
>
>                           Jeff  KU8E
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