I was just talking to Scott (KA9FOX) about Dayton and was telling him I probably wasn't coming because I have plans for WPX CW. You see, my XYL would not see the humor in my doing two ham radio weeke
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You guys need to trade in your spouses! I spent our 25th and 30th wedding anniversaries noodling around in CQWW-cw, I have to remind my wife that it's our aniversary (if I remember). First things fi
That has been my situation both last year (my first at Dayton) and this... Fortunately I found the tradeoff worth it. 73, Pete N4ZR Contesting is! The World Contest Station Database is waiting for yo
You guys need to trade in your spouses! I spent our 25th and 30th wedding anniversaries noodling around in CQWW-cw, I have to remind my wife that it's our aniversary (if I remember). First things fi
I was thinking to a solution to this dilema a couple of weeks ago and I found it... Since my wife thinks exactly the same, the only way to do 2 weekends, is to do the contest m/s with my kid, so I ca
Bill: I was going to stop by Dayton on the way home from ZD8, but as I've decided to take another spin at one of those equatorial islands that you so love, Dayton bites the dust, for me, and WPX here
Hi Derek: My XYL and I were married on CQWW weekend in 1974. She knew it. She picked the date because neither Georgia, Georgia Tech, nor Auburn had home football games that Saturday. I only got to op
So I'm just wondering... Has the Dayton Hamvention move to the weekend before WPX CW hurt the contest attendance? Is anyone else missing the WPX who might have otherwise operated because of Dayton? -
Hi: I never went to a Dayton Hamvention, but in the future when I´ll go certainly that will not be a 3 day´s trip. I must add more activities on US to support the Air ticket value to ther
WPX CW hurt more than anything else by the fact that it on Memorial Day weekend. I'm single, so I'm the only one who has to approve my operating the contest, but its real hard to roust up a multi-ope
You guyz are disappointing me....Has anyone thought about setting up a station in say the parking garage at Stouffers??? Shouldn't be that hard to put up a three el tribander on the top floor and run
This is an excellent idea! Who knows, we might even have better conditions both on high and low bands. Let's do it. 73, Pete N4ZR Contesting is! The World Contest Station Database is waiting for your
Allow me to lend my voice to those requesting that CQ WPX CW be moved from Memorial Day weekend. This is one of my favorite contests, and I make every effort to operate, but must pay a heavy price ev
It's not a good idea. Here in JA, we will have the "All JA Contest" in every last weekend of April. All JA contest is the domestic contest like SS in the states and we had 2,236 participants(logs) fo
schedule their two major CW contests on weekends that are sure to produce the maximum domestic conflict. I suspect that family scheduling patterns and marriage dynamics have changed a quite a bit si
As to family conflicts and XYL complaints over contest weekends and lack of family time....it sure would be nice to see more YL contestors! The family that contests together.... Merri AB0MV -- CQ-Con