[Cwo] CWO 2012

[Alan Maenchen]

To answer your first question:  CQWW CW is over Thanksgiving weekend - and
it's the most popular contest on the planet.

The (few) comments I've received from EU guys indicates the first weekend in
Sept is about as good as we can get. The main problems are:
  -  Russian RTTY
  -  QCWA
  -  Colorado QSO party
  -  Straight Key contest (FISTS)

The RTTY thing may be big, but they should stay higher in the band. Hope
this is better than RDA.
The others don't appear to be major events.
There are a couple of big SSB events that may pull away participants, but
there is no direct conflict on the bands.

Yes, at this point I'm satisfied with the date.
Bruce - do you have any comment?  If not, can you add this to your 2012
calendar?

73, Alan  AD6E






On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:33 AM, <k6rb at baymoon.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim, N3JT
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > Gents:
> >
> >
> >
> > I examined the WA7BNM perpetual calendar cross referenced to his CW
> > contest
> > calendar and found Sept. 1, 2012 as a very reasonable date for CWO 2012.
> > The
> > 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 :-).
> >
> >
> >
> > Wadda ya think?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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).
> >
> >
> >
> > The adjudication software is fine (I did a full check, last night, and my
> > independent manual results matched AD6E's computed results.
> >
> >
> >
> > I also recommend that we stick with the same time slots and durations
> > (e.g.
> > 1200-1600Z; 2000-2400Z; 0400-0800Z). Looking at the preliminary results,
> > several participants did better than 100K points.
> >
> >
> >
> > 73,
> >
> >
> >
> > Rob K6RB
> >
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