Topband: July Stew Perry Please!!!!

[Steve London]

On 03/17/2012 08:12 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 3/17/2012 6:34 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
>> Four 24 hour Stew's a year is a good deal, at the equinoxes and the
>> soltices.
>
> While I LOVE the concept of the Stew, it seriously lacks critical mass,
> even in the main event in December.  As a result, I always finding
> myself taking frequent breaks during the evening and going QRT from
> boredom by 1 am or so.
>
> It has seemed to me that adding the July and October runnings of the
> Stew are even more poorly attended, and have also served to dilute
> interest in the Dec event.  While I'd love to see topband activity
> spread around the calendar, far more effort is needed to get more folks
> to participate.

Hence, my suggestion to make the already-popular, all-HF-band, SSB/CW, IARU HF 
contest the summer 160 meter event. The ITU zones that make up the exchange 
don't provide quite the same geographic granularity as grid squares, but they 
can still be used to provide a distance-based metric.

73,
Steve, N2IC