[Cwo] 2014 CW Open and YO DX HF Contest

[John Miller]

I'm a little late to this discussion, and perhaps I've missed something, but what's wrong with the weekend of September 12-13, 2014?

The only contests I see scheduled for that weekend are:

WAE DX SSB
SKCC (Straight Key Century Club) Weekend Sprintathon
ARRL VHF Contest
NA Sprint, SSB
Swiss HTC QRP 

Most are non-CW contests, and none would appear to be a major conflict with CWO.  No state QSO parties.  No YO DX contest.

And FOC hasn't scheduled anything for September 2014 yet:

http://www.g4foc.org/calendar?EventViewMode=1&EventListViewMode=2&SelectedDate=9/10/2014&CalendarViewType=0

My suggestion:

Session
Date
Time
1
September 13, 2014
0000 - 0359z
2
September 13, 2014
1200 - 1559z
3
September 13, 2014
2000 - 2359z








73,
John K6MM

On Sep 10, 2013, at 7:20 AM, Hank Garretson wrote:

> Good Morning All,
> 
> I am about to violate my personal rule about "criticizing" and not offering a good alternative. But ...
> 
> I don't have a good feeling about Session 3 followed immediately (or even on the same weekend) as NA CW Sprint. 
> 
> CW Sprint is an intense contest that demands full concentration. At least for me, switching gears from CWO Session 3 to Sprint would not work. One or the other or more likely both would suffer.
> 
> CW Sprinters are guys we would like to have in CWops, CWTs, and CWOs. Let's make it easy for them instead of conflicting. 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Hank, W6SX
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:59 AM, <k6rb at baymoon.com> wrote:
> Chip's point makes total sense. They have been doing it on the last full weekend of August; we have the last two years been doing it on the first full or partial weekend of September.
> 
> Can we agree to do it on Sep 6? That would be totally consistent with our past practice...and not put us in conflict with anything significant. The NA Sprint which follows our session 3 does not conflict. It follows only one session of the event.
> 
> In years passed, NA Sprint also conflicted with an FOC event. FOCers would break out of their event - do the Sprint - then resume the FOC event. In our case, it's not even an issue.
> 
> Let's give it a try. This is a better solution than conflicting with YO DX and the state QSO parties. Can we get a consensus?
> 
> Rob K6RB
> 
> 
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