[SECC] GQP-2004

[Dan/W4NTI]

Summertime skip is terrible.

Dan/W4NTI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary McConville" <wb4sq at yahoo.com>
To: <secc at contesting.com>; <sedxc at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [SECC] GQP-2004


> How about moving it around the first weekend in June
> and encourage emergency power operations.  Maybe as a
> prep for Field Day.
> 
> Gary - WB4SQ
> 
> --- ku8e at bellsouth.net wrote:
> >    If you would move it a week earlier there would
> > not be a conflict with any
> >  "major" contests. The only problem is that it would
> > be a week after CQ WPX SSB.
> >  People might be too burned out to want to spend
> > alot of time in GQP the next
> >  weekend. We would not want it moved up a week
> > because it would conflict with 
> >  the Michigan QSO party, which always has good
> > activity. Having an operating 
> >  period during Easter Sunday would probably not be a
> > good idea.
> > 
> >    One way to fix this problem is to make GQP a 12
> > hour contest like what
> >  many of the other QSO parties are going to. If it
> > wasn't for the great mobile
> >  activity we get people would lose interest. There
> > has always been complaints
> >  about the low amount of fixed activity from GA.
> > Most people don't want to spend
> >  a whole weekend - unless they are having fun
> > rovering - in a state QSO party.
> > 
> >  Another option (if we want to stay at 20 hours) is
> > to have maybe a 4 hour period on Friday night -
> > 0000-0400z and then maybe start up at 12:00 Z on
> > Saturday morning and go to 0400Z (midnight). That
> > would give you 4 hours Friday
> > night and 16 hours on Saturday and still leave
> > Sunday free for those who have other things going on
> > during the weekend. That additional 4 hours Friday
> > night would give us 4 hours of very good propagation
> > - which would probably be a good thing. Any comments
> > ???
> > 
> >                           Jeff KU8E
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > From: SavageBR at aol.com
> > > Date: 2003/05/30 Fri AM 07:46:16 EDT
> > > To: secc at contesting.com,  sedxc at contesting.com
> > > Subject: [SECC] GQP-2004
> > > 
> > > Looking at the calendar, it appears the GQP will
> > fall on Easter Sunday. This 
> > > year's GQP on Palm Sunday was a problem for some.
> > Should we consider moving it 
> > > one week later in 2004?
> > > 
> > > Bruce  AA4Z 
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