[Cwo] CW OPEN sked change
Chuck-NO5W
no5w at consolidated.net
Sun Aug 21 16:14:32 PDT 2011
If that's the last full weekend in September there's the CQWW RTTY and
the Texas QSO Party, both popular events in the CW portion of the bands.
On 8/21/2011 4:01 PM, Rob wrote:
> Gents:
> I've had another look at the perpetual calendar and the last weekend of
> September (which precedes by one week the Cal QSO Party) has only one
> conflict - RSG
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Alan Maenchen <mailto:ad6e at arrl.net>
> *To:* Rob <mailto:k6rb at baymoon.com>
> *Cc:* Peter Chamalian <mailto:w1rm at arrl.net> ; Jim Talens
> <mailto:jtalens at verizon.net> ; KZ5D at aol.com <mailto:KZ5D at aol.com> ;
> cwo at kkn.net <mailto:cwo at kkn.net>
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 21, 2011 12:28 PM
> *Subject:* Re: CW OPEN sked change
>
> I've been on an IOTA expedition and generated some HUGE pileups.
> It's a big deal in EU and growing in NA.
>
> Need to look at the rules to see if the split format of CWO would
> really cause trouble or not. We assumed RDA was no big deal either
> and learned the hard way not to brush off these events as "minor".
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Rob <k6rb at baymoon.com
> <mailto:k6rb at baymoon.com>> wrote:
>
> __
> Alan,
> I would opt for doing the CW OPEN on the 4th weekend of August.
> The only conflict is RSGB IOTA. Big deal! We might lose K6VVA in
> that one (hi). It would avoid a lot of other stuff and still
> have the event occur roughly around the time it did this time.
> Having a winter CWO would be tough but perhaps there's a
> possibility. I would rather get an annual CWO refined to where
> it was a well-attended and fun event. We're definitely on the
> way to accomplishing that.
> Rob K6RB
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Alan Maenchen <mailto:ad6e at arrl.net>
> *To:* Bruce Horn <mailto:bhorn at hornucopia.com>
> *Cc:* Rob <mailto:k6rb at baymoon.com> ; Peter Chamalian
> <mailto:w1rm at arrl.net> ; Jim Talens
> <mailto:jtalens at verizon.net> ; KZ5D at aol.com
> <mailto:KZ5D at aol.com> ; cwo at kkn.net <mailto:cwo at kkn.net>
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 21, 2011 11:25 AM
> *Subject:* Re: CW OPEN sked change
>
> Bruce,
>
> Look at the positive side: I made a bunch of QSOs in NAQP
> SSB while waiting for the next CWO session. I would not have
> made any SSB QSOs if it were not for CWO. :-) I'd like to
> see data on how CWO affected NAQP participation this year.
> My gut feel is that it was a minimal impact, but I could be
> wrong. I love NAQP CW, but I've never entered the SSB (or
> RTTY) version.
>
> The big problem for CWO was RDA and Keyman contests. It's
> impossible to pick any weekend that has no conflicts.
> However, I think we were clobbered by those two events that
> limited CWO to a NA only event. That is unfortunate.
> Interestingly, we only received one complaint about stepping
> on those toes. That was from a DL who warned about the RDA
> activity.
>
> I agree with Rob that it was too early in the planning stage
> to do a July event. However, we need to think seriously
> about a different date. I've already had a request for a
> winter CWO, but I doubt that would be possible.
>
> 73, Alan AD6E
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Bruce Horn
> <bhorn at hornucopia.com <mailto:bhorn at hornucopia.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> As the manager of the NAQP SSB contest I certainly would
> like to see the CW Open moved to a weekend that didn't
> conflict with the NAQP, which has been scheduled on the
> 3rd full weekend in August for a very long time.
> However, the 3rd weekend in July is the perpetual date
> of the NAQP-RTTY contest.
>
> 73 de Bruce, WA7BNM (bhorn at hornucopia.com
> <mailto:bhorn at hornucopia.com>)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Rob" <k6rb at baymoon.com <mailto:k6rb at baymoon.com>>
> *To: *"Bruce Horn" <bhorn at hornucopia.com
> <mailto:bhorn at hornucopia.com>>
> *Cc: *"Alan Maenchen" <ad6e at arrl.net
> <mailto:ad6e at arrl.net>>, "Peter Chamalian"
> <w1rm at arrl.net <mailto:w1rm at arrl.net>>, "Jim Talens"
> <jtalens at verizon.net <mailto:jtalens at verizon.net>>,
> KZ5D at aol.com <mailto:KZ5D at aol.com>
> *Sent: *Sunday, August 21, 2011 7:54:38 AM
> *Subject: *CW OPEN sked change
>
>
> Bruce,
> I think there's a concensus to change the date for next
> year's CW OPEN to that weekend in July (July 23, 2011,
> this year) where there are virtually no conflicts. We
> were too far down the road, this year, to change it. I
> see in your perpetual calendar that that weekend looks
> really good. Has anything changed on that score? If not,
> I would estimate it's about a 99 percent likelihood that
> next year's CW OPEN and all subsequent ones will be on
> that third weekend of July timeframe.
> This year, we ran into some problems because of the
> Russian RDA and Japan's "keyman." We'd like to avoid
> that conflict and the one with NAQP SSB, too.
> Let me know. Thanks for your major help in score
> submittal, Bruce. It makes a huge difference.
> Rob K6RB
>
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