My fiend VE3XB (a.k.a. VE3ZPD, UT4EA and RA0FB) will be in Schaumburg,
Illinois for the next 2 weeks including ARRL DX CW Contest weekend. So if
there's any M/S or M/M station within 100 miles from Schamburg in need of
skilled operator - please drop me a line. Or contact Yuri VE3XB personally
directly:
ve3zpd@idirect.ca
Thanks.
73 Yuri VA3UZ
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>From Tyler Stewart" <k3mm@home.com Sat Feb 9 16:25:06 2002
From: Tyler Stewart" <k3mm@home.com (Tyler Stewart)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Morons at the NCJ
References: <200202090543.VAA31407@loja.kkn.net>
Message-ID: <001301c1b186$561909a0$6400a8c0@Home>
As an "all-mode" contester, I would have to say that the RTTY WPX is the
second or third largest RTTY contest of the year.
The XE RTTY contest is a very minor and shouldnt even be considered as an
obstruction.
Irregardless, I would not concern myself too much with trying to dodge RTTY
contests. The Sprints are only 4 hours on the second night of the DX
contest and there are other places the DX will go, even tho a lot of them
are supposed to stay between 7030 and 7040.
Since the RTTY WPX has 18 hours of off time in 48 hours, there are a lot of
guys off the air as well.
RTTY has been having to dodge all kinds of QRM in the lower section of the
band for years and years. They should be used to it by now. Perhaps the
Sprinters will want to avoid this window, staying above 7040 or below 7030.
However, there is already EU packet/pactor below 7040 to 7030 and SSB above
7040 which they still have to deal with on a regular basis.
If you want to move the Sprint or WPX that would be fine with me.
Personally I'd like to see the RTTY WPX move to the first weekend because
it's too close to the ARRL DX weekend for me to participate seriously. My
family will only tolerate so many adjacent contesting weekends and they are
quite tolerant as it is... The Sprints being only 4 hours long "dont count"
as contest weekends in my book! hi!
Just my humble opinions.
73, Ty K3MM
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From: "Tree N6TR" <tree@kkn.net>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 5:43 AM
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] Morons at the NCJ
>
>
> K4IK writes:
>
> > > The obvious "fix" is to move the RTTY and FOC contests on the same
> > > weekend because the FOCers don't go up above 7035 and have the
> > > NCJ CW Sprint on the other weekend.
> >
> > > I would be happy to move the CW Sprint to whichever weekend it takes
> > > to make this happen.
> >
> > What is the possibility of exchanging weekends for the FOC Marathon
> > and CW Sprint? RTTY WPX is between a rock and a hard place since
> > the Mexico International RTTY is the first full weekend of February
> > and the ARRL DX Contest (CW) is the third full weekend of February,
> > RTTY WPX has no place to move ...
>
> What? Another RTTY contest on the first weekend of February? This is
> starting to become pretty impossible.
>
> Also, I am probably not the best one to approach the FOCers about this.
>
> I am skeptical about moving the CW Sprint just so we can QRM a different
> RTTY contest AND the FOCers to boot.
>
> I am pretty amazed that there are two "international" RTTY contests on
> consecutive weekends. I think this needs to be fixed before any other
> solutions can be explored.
>
> 73 Tree N6TR/Moron
> tree@kkn.net
>
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