[CQ-Contest] Let's Do Something About CW Sprint

[Tyler Stewart]

Well, heck, maybe we can talk them into shifting the hours to 2200 to 0200 
so we dont get stomped quite so badly from the right coast!

Ty K3MM



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Schimelpfenig" <k7sv at adelphia.net>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 5:01 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Let's Do Something About CW Sprint


> While my employment isn't of the odd hours variety, I still get up at 
> 0900Z Monday morning to get to work on time. Five hours of sleep no longer 
> cuts it with me. I think a number of east coasters would be unhappy to 
> have the cw sprint end at 11PM Sunday evening. I try to work the both and 
> would just as soon not have them both on the same weekend anyway.
>
> It seems to me that everyone was happy with things until the FOCers began 
> a Marathon the same weekend. Was this a new Marathon or one that was moved 
> from another date for some reason? Many of the FOCers are also sprinters, 
> so coexistence in the cw bands isn't the sole issue.
>
> We're not going to get the RTTYers to remain above 7040 and as much as we 
> did coexist with them, how many of us are satisfied with status quo?
>
> Seems to me the best answer would be to convince the FOCers to go with the 
> same weekend as the WPX RTTY and let us go back to that slot. The FOCers 
> seem to hang lower in the bands anyway.
>
> I suppose there must be something wrong with this proposal. It seems too 
> easy. Maybe
>
> In regards to coexisting with the RTTYers over the weekend, someone made a 
> comment about sprinters being gentlemen. While I'm sure many of the 
> sprinters could pretty well tear up the RTTYers, that,s really not a 
> productive move, based on rate and the qsy rule. People simplly moved down 
> to escape them.
>
> 73 de Lar K7SV
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