[CQ-Contest] NA SPRINT CW Issues

[Jack Brindle]

Sorry guys, my QLF. No matter how many times I read it, my eyes saw  
7100-7125, but my mind read it as 7000-7025.
It's a good suggestion...

Somehow I have to be able to blame this on Locust / K6VVA...
<grin>

Jack B, W6FB

On Feb 10, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Jack Brindle wrote:

> Interesting discussion, but I really wonder why no one has asked the
> obvious question - Is there some belief that all contesters have Extra
> class licenses?
> Or perhaps the proponents of this idea wish to discourage
> participation of the Advanced and General class licensed hams?
>
> But I _know_ you guys must have thought about this. What am I missing?
>
> Jack Brindle, W6FB
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Ted Bryant wrote:
>
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> I like your suggestion. The frequencies between 7100-7125kHz seem to
>> be one
>> of the least-used segments on that band. But I would take it one step
>> further - make that segment the suggested 40m frequencies for all
>> the NA CW
>> Sprints, lest we confuse folks (and some WILL forget!) on when to
>> operate
>> where and have activity split between two band segments.
>>
>> Thanks for the QSO's Saturday night.
>>
>> 73, Ted W4NZ
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
>> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Mike Tessmer
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 4:28 PM
>> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] NA SPRINT CW Issues
>>
>>
>>
>>> The horrific Digital/RTTY conflict issue on 40m still needs to be
>> eliminated
>>> from NA CW Sprint future events.
>>
>>
>> The end of the world was predicted with the rare conflict of ARRL  
>> RTTY
>> Roundup and NAQP CW earlier this year.  It didn't happen that way
>> but within
>> the discussion someone noted the mostly open territory between 7100
>> and
>> 7125.  In that context it was why isn't there more RTTY activity up
>> there?
>>
>> So in another context, why not try to migrate the February CW Sprint
>> activity to that segment?  Face it, 99.9% of the CW sprint activity
>> is by
>> "sprinters" with very few ops who just happen to tune across the
>> chaos and
>> jump in.  It would seem with ample pre-contest publicity in this
>> forum and
>> via club mediums, pretty much anyone interested in the CW sprint
>> would get
>> the word.  I offer this ONLY for the February CW Sprint (September
>> doesn't
>> seem to have much conflict.)  The XE RTTY contest isn't going away.
>> Who
>> knows what the next major DXpedition in early Feb will be but
>> chances are
>> there will be one and they'd be listening up on the low end of 40.
>> Toss in
>> the FOC marathon.  The weekend swap has already been tried but with
>> the
>> exponential rise in WPX RTTY activity that weekend - a major contest
>> now -
>> that won't work.
>>
>> Any particular reason this would not work?  Am I missing anything?
>>
>>
>> 73, Mike K9NW
>>
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