[Cwo] CWO 2012

[k6rb at baymoon.com]

Based on the first round of comments, it sounds like the consensus is to
go with first weekend in September. What should be the next step? I don't
want to drag our feet on this one. The sooner we lock down a date; the
sooner we can start a full-court-press promotional plan and campaign.

Rob K6RB


> Sounds fine to me, though it could be problematic for guys who have Labor
> Day issues,  It is a major national holiday that draws folks away from
> home,
> surely one reason the slot is currently relatively vacant.
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> Jim, N3JT
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> From: Rob [mailto:k6rb at baymoon.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 12:13 PM
> To: Peter Chamalian; KZ5D at aol.com; Alan Maenchen; n3jt at verizon.net; Bud
> Trench; Andy Faber; 'Keeler, Ken (N6RO)'
> Cc: Bruce Horn
> Subject: CWO 2012
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> I examined the WA7BNM perpetual calendar cross referenced to his CW
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> calendar and found Sept. 1, 2012 as a very reasonable date for CWO 2012.
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> only conflicts showing are All Asian Phone DX contest, a QRP sprint, and
> DARC 10 m digital contest. That first Sept. weekend also looks good for
> 2013. Perhaps we should claim it for CWO and get placed on the perpetual
> calendar before some other major CW contest nabs it :-).
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> If so, we should begin publicizing it right away. This year we don't have
> the hurdles of simultaneously getting contest log support (although I
> recommend that someone try to get WIN-TEST to support it, too).
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> The adjudication software is fine (I did a full check, last night, and my
> independent manual results matched AD6E's computed results.
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> I also recommend that we stick with the same time slots and durations
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> 1200-1600Z; 2000-2400Z; 0400-0800Z). Looking at the preliminary results,
> several participants did better than 100K points.
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> 73,
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> Rob K6RB
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