[CQ-Contest] Is it time to move Field Day earlier in the year?

[Mike Fatchett W0MU]

When that emergency hits, we are all going to pack up and leave our 
families and head to the nearest park to setup........and then 
communicate with................

Back to the contest.  er whatever FD is.

On 6/23/2024 3:00 PM, JOHN GEIGER via CQ-Contest wrote:
> Never know what the weather might be like when an emergency hits, so guess preparing in the extremes makes other times of the year easier.
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> After all, FD is not a contest!  We know this because QST prints the line scores for it.
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> Upload your FD log to LOTW-in 2027 maybe!
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> 73 John AF5CC
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> ---- On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 14:11:36 -0500 Ron Notarius W3WN via CQ-Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote ---
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> Well, for one thing, there aren't a lot of weekends in April and May that aren't busy -- and I don't just mean from an Amateur Radio standpoint.
> Even for those weekends that might work (MIGHT being the operative word), you'd have to be concerned about other events on nearby weekends -- Hamvention certainly, other major regional events as well, to say nothing of various special events and DXpeditions and such that will inevitably crop up..  You'd be bumping up against a lot of long-tenured events whose organizers might not be very happy about the effects on their events... and would no doubt be resistant to cutting back or moving theirs.
> And yes, while the weather was uncomfortably if not dangerously hot this weekend in much of North America -- my club's FD was one of the ones cancelled due to concerns about the weather -- it is not always so.  There have been plenty of FD's of comfortable conditions -- and rainy, and cold and miserable, etc.  It's the nature of the beast, so to speak.
> In short:  FD ain't broke.  Don't fix it.
> 73, ron 232n
>   On Sunday, June 23, 2024 at 01:17:55 PM EDT, Barry W2UP <mailto:w2up.co at gmail.com> wrote:
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>   For most of the US, it's uncomfortably hot on FD, not only this year, but
> almost every year.  Why not move it to April or May, or even the same
> weekend as European FD?
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> Barry W2UP
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