[Cwo] Fwd: CWO needs some help

[Alan Maenchen]

Ward is trying to help and I understand his situation.  I'm not the
brightest lamp when it comes to "sizzle"  ;-)
Any thoughts?

Please respond to me and/or the group, not Ward directly if possible.

Tks,  Alan  AD6E





---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ward Silver <hwardsil at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: CWO needs some help
To: Alan Maenchen <ad6e at arrl.net>


**
Well...OK.  I can note that the CWO has moved.  But give me a little more
sizzle :-)

----- Original Message -----
*From:* Alan Maenchen <ad6e at arrl.net>
*To:* Ward Silver <hwardsil at gmail.com>
*Sent:* Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:27 PM
*Subject:* Re: CWO needs some help

I understand ..  how about "new weekend"?  or "new dates"?
That by itself is probably sufficient to warrant a second look.

Thanks !!
73, Alan  AD6E



On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Ward Silver <hwardsil at gmail.com> wrote:

> **
> Alan, about the most I ever do for contest promotion is run it as a
> headline or if there is some kind of "news" about it - such as a new
> category or plaque program or something other than "hey, it's running this
> weekend".  I would be happy to put CWO on the "leaderboard" by the way.  I
> avoid doing single-contest promotions (with the hopefully understandable
> exception of the newsletter sponsor's contests and I keep those down to a
> dull roar, too) because there are hundreds of contests that would then want
> THEIR contest promoted and so forth.
>
> Come up with something neat about CWO - new certificates, website update,
> real-time scoreboard somewhere - and I'll put a short item in the news
> section to keep the wheels turning.  How's that?
>
> 73, Ward N0AX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Alan Maenchen <ad6e at arrl.net>
> *To:* Ward Silver <hwardsil at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Brownstein Robert <k6rb at baymoon.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 16, 2012 12:30 PM
> *Subject:* CWO needs some help
>
> Ward,
>
> I'm hoping you can help get more activity for the upcoming CW OPEN Sept
> 1-2.
> You have it listed in the Contest Corral, and I appreciate it.  I'm really
> nervous about this event since last year was bombed by two other heavy
> hitter CW events going on at the same time in AS and in EU. That's why we
> moved it to Sept 1-2 for this year.
>
> CWO is NOT the biweekly CWT events that have been going on for a long time
> now. It's the "real deal" where all that practice is now on the line for an
> actual trophy and glory. Last years' result writeup can be found here:
> http://www.cwops.org/cwo2011-final.html
>
> Folks need to be reminded that the exchange is Serial NR and Name
> The CWT has a different, although similar exchange which is Name and CWops
> membership NR.  No membership (or number) is needed in CWO.
>
> My little writeup (PDF) on that results page shows what the sun is doing
> in each of the three four hour events.
> This is a different competition than the usual:  Three separate events of
> four hours each separated by 4 hours. The propagation changes significantly
> between each session.  Let me know if you want those little JPGs.
>
> Last year saw mostly NA activity with very little elsewhere. I REALLY want
> to make this a world wide event. K6RB has been sending out email reminders
> which I hope work out. Your next issue of Contest Update (Aug 29?) would be
> perfectly timed to help CW OPEN.
>
> Thanks & 73,  Alan  AD6E
>
> http://www.cwops.org/cwopen.html
>
>
>
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