[Cwo] 2014 CW Open

[D Faklis]

My 2 cents... The end of August timeframe is good and seems important; The CW Open helps define the beginning of the contest season.  A partial conflict with YO DX will have an impact, and here are the results from this year's event:

http://www.3830scores.com/editionscores.php?arg=W2vmdzLfasve

The impact is measurable, but I think it's lighter than a partial conflict with the NA CW Sprint (7 SEP 14) or WAE SSB/NA Sprint SSB (13 SEP 14).  Those two events are actually fun, despite the microphone....

Or we could work with the Ohio QSO Party folks.  We move to 23 AUG, they move to 30 AUG.  Colorado QSO Party is in there sometime too.  Just a thought.

Given what we know now, 30 AUG 14 might work OK.

73, Dean, NW2K


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On Fri, 9/6/13, k6rb at baymoon.com <k6rb at baymoon.com> wrote:

 Subject: RE: [Cwo] 2014 CW Open
 To: "Jim Talens" <jtalens at verizon.net>
 Cc: "'D Faklis'" <dfaklis at yahoo.com>, "K6rb" <k6rb at baymoon.com>, "'Peter Chamalian'" <w1rm at comcast.net>
 Date: Friday, September 6, 2013, 4:14 PM
 
 I think given the choices, we're
 better off with August 30. I know we
 will lose a lot of players to the Sprint on Sep. 6, not
 because they
 conflict, but because it would mean an uninterrupted 8 hours
 of operation
 if they do the last session.
 I'm not sure that a 4-hour collision with YO DX would
 do us as much
 harm.
 Some comments from others? If we lock in a date, soon, we
 can plan a
 low-cost ad in QST along with other international
 promotions. The only
 split weekend in 2014 is in February, I think. That's
 too long to
 wait.
 Rob K6RB
  
  
 > Wait just a bit, please, Dean. 
 
 > 
 
 > I don't have the earlier messages about this but I
 remember that the
 
 
 > August 
 
 > 30 weekend collides with the YO-contest whereas the
 next weekend has
 
 
 > several 
 
 > collisions. I don't recall which was worse. I note
 that the YO
 contest 
 
 > is 
 
 > a pretty sizeable deal and is 12z-12z August 30-31,
 2014. If our CWO
 is 
 
 > August 29 00-04z, August 30 12-16z, August 30 20-24z.
 then it looks
 like 4 
 
 > hours of overlap., during peak EU-East Coast skip
 hours. The next 
 
 > weekend 
 
 > is a Sprint but what else? 
 
 > 
 
 > JIm 
 
 > 
 
 > -----Original Message----- 
 
 > 
 
 From: cwo-bounces at kkn.net [mailto:cwo-bounces at kkn.net] On
 Behalf Of D 
 
 > Faklis 
 
 > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 3:17 PM 
 
 > To: cwo at kkn.net 
 
 > Subject: [Cwo] 2014 CW Open 
 
 > 
 
 > All, Rob suggested 30 AUG 2014 for the next CW Open.
 Should I reserve
 
 
 > that 
 
 > date? Same session times? Thanks, Dean