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Re: [CQ-Contest] WPX & activity (Was: intended consequences)

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WPX & activity (Was: intended consequences)
From: George Fremin III <geoiii@kkn.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:23:54 -0700
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On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:15:58PM -0600, Steve London wrote:
> 
> Why not a combined GA-FL QSO Party the 2nd weekend of April ?

One of the reasons there is somewhat of a lull in the 
contest calendar in April has to do with that 
major Christian holiday of Easter.

WPX SSB falls on easter some years - is this better or worse
than Memorial Day?  I don't know.

Here is a graph of Easter Distrbuiton by date (compleate 5,700,000 year cycle):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Easter_Distribution.png

And if you really want to go deep into the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus

-- 
George Fremin III - K5TR
geoiii@kkn.net
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr


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