[CQ-Contest] First weekend in May

Mon Nov 15 11:41:54 PST 2010

Hello Scott,

a move of the MARAC contest to last weekend of july, will bring it into 
baddle with the world wide IOTA Contests AND will disclose any 
participation from DX (at least EU) mostly, as the most productive time 
for county hunting is spring (first weekend of may is just great) and 
autumn (we have a lot of QSO-parties already that time frame).

The russian CQ-Mir-Contest (CQ-M) is held every 2nd full weekend of may, 
it was 08./09.05.2010 this year and it will be 14./15.05.2011 next year.

So I hope the MARAC CW Contest will NOT be moved from that weekend to 
july (at least). Having 7QP, INQP and NEQP at the same weekends adds 
more to the fun than it takes from.

73 & gl

Axel Schernikau, DL6KVA
dl6kva at darc.de

Am 15.11.2010 02:02, schrieb ka3qlf at comcast.net:
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>        Seems a series of emails has been exchanged regarding the First weekend in May this year. Listed previously is:
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> 0000Z May 7 2400Z May 8     3.5-28 50-432 MARAC CW and SSB Contests
> 0001Z May 7 2359Z May 8     28  10-10 Spring Digital Contest
> 1300Z May 7 1900Z May 7     3.5,7  QRP-QRP-Party
> 1300Z May 7 0700Z May 8     1.8-28 50,144 7th Area QSO Party
> 1600Z May 7 0400Z May 8     1.8-28  Indiana QSO Party
> 1700Z May 7 0459Z May 8     3.5-21  Radio Club of America QSO Party
> 2000Z May 7 1959Z May 8     1.8-28  ARI International DX Contest
> 2000Z May 7 2400Z May 8     3.5-28  New England QSO Party
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> Announced also this weekend is the 0 land qso party, and WA7BNM perpetual calendar lists a CQ-M dx contest as well. Please note, As the MARAC contest coordinator, I have proposed a new set of rules to the MARAC Board. Included in this is a date change to the last full weekend in July. With the amount of activity generally on that weekend, and the addition of a few more contests, I felt it would best suit the MARAC contest to vacate this wekeend, and return to July. Once I recieve formal word form the MARAC Board, I will immediately contact software authors, and publicity contacts, and do my best to get the word out.  Hope to catch you all on the bands soon--Scott, KA3QLF  MARAC Contest coordinator
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