Topband: July Stew Perry Please!!!!

[Herb Schoenbohm]

On 3/18/2012 9:55 AM, Steve London wrote:
> 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


> In most competition whether major or minor league sports or even NASCAR or Indie races the importance or a warm up is very crucial to the outcome in most cases.
       Herb, KV4FZ