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[Jay Pryor]

Let's see . . . driving around operating /M in April with the car windows 
down; or driving around in July with the a/c going full bore.   I vote for 
April!

73,  Jay/K4OGG

At 03:39 PM 10/22/2002, Lee Hiers wrote:
>John has my proxy...I know he knows this stuff better than anybody!
>
>73 de Lee
>
>On 22 Oct 2002 at 15:07, John Laney wrote:
>
> > Second weekend in October is a bad idea.  Pa QSO Party is a really big
> > one and has been on that weekend forever.  It is both Sat and Sun.
> >
> > Third weekend in October, if Saturday only, wouldn't conflict with IQP,
> > but would conflict with WAG, which would take all the Europeans out on
> > Saturday.
> >
> > Second weekend in April may be a very good idea.  It still has the
> > QRPARCI Spring contest (third weekend in Oct has the Fall contest), so
> > we lose most of the QRP guys either way.  The only major international
> > contest is the annual CW JIDXC, with Japan working the world.  We almost
> > never have any entries from Japan or otherwise in Asia.  Very few of us
> > here in GA work the JIDXC.
> >
> > The European contests on that weekend are minor ones.  The DIG CW Club
> > (Germany) has one 12-17Z on Saturday and that wouldn't conflict with our
> > hours at all.  Same for their low band contests that weekend and the UBA
> > (Belgium) contests.  All during hours that our contest isn't in
> > operation.  The European SSB Sprint does conflict, but it is on only 80,
> > 40, and 20 meters and runs from 15 to 19Z.  The only possibility of
> > contacts is on 20 meters.  I have managed a handful of contacts in a CW
> > European Sprint, but have never been able to hear any on SSB well enough
> > to get a QSO  (the QSY rule makes it really hard in fringe propagation
> > areas).  So, basically it seems to me that the published contests on the
> > SM3CER contest page show NO conflicts of any significance except for the
> > QRP contest that weekend.  It would mean that we should be planning
> > three months sooner and getting out the publicity that much sooner, as
> > well as the results from GQP 2002.  Of course, we could skip 2003 and go
> > right to 2004, but that would invite someone else to step in and take
> > that weekend.  I vote strongly in favor of the second weekend in April.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> >
> > John, K4BAI.
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>Lee Hiers, AA4GA
>Cornelia, Georgia
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