[Cwo] Some thoughts...

[Jim]

But that could become both cumbersome and entrapping in the future as we try to apply it as we then find necessary under unanticipted facts.  Not sure it is needed.  Let's just use the consensus of our half dozen interested persons and be done with it.  I forget now who they are!   I would just list the dates with all the conflicts and tabulate responses for the consensus.


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From: k6rb at baymoon.com 
Date: 09/16/2013  5:27 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: cwo at kkn.net 
Subject: [Cwo] Some thoughts... 
 
I think we need a policy statement for CW Open with regard to choosing the Saturdays on which we hold it.

For example:

Tier One Conflicts -

Popular CW only contest held same day/time
Popular international contest held same day/time
Tier Two Conflicts -

Popular SSB/RTTY contest that could syphon lots of players, same day/time
Popular national contests (e.g. NAQP, SS, CQP, RAC) same day/time
Less popular national/international contests - CW only or multimode.
Popular CW only contest preceding or following CWO by less than an hour
You see where I'm going with this. We need some criteria to use when having to make choices about Saturdays. One says "we can't conflict with SAC;" another says "we can't be on the same day as CW Sprint;" someone else says "TX QSO Party conflicts."

If we have a policy statement that says something like "CW Open will be held on a Saturday where it does not conflict, concurrently, with any popular CW only or international contest" then we have rules for the road. Right now, it's lots of diverging opinions.

Rob K6RB
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