No Friday start for me, thanks! That would effectively remove a big
chunk of operating time for rovers, plus two overnights would increase
already high costs ..
de w1rt/john
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:22 PM, <w8zn@comcast.net> wrote:
> There has been a lot of comments about either changing the date or time of
> the January contest however I've not seen any input from the rovers.
>
> How much of a pain would it be for rovers if the contest started Friday night
> (0000z) and ended Sunday morning before the playoff games started? Is the
> normal rover route start close to home and end far away or vise versa? When I
> rove, I generally start far away and work back since the contest ends so late
> but ending by noonish on Sunday would allow you to start close and finish
> away and still get home before dinner! Plus, I like starting close so you can
> get sync'ed with stations you want to follow at different sites and check
> freq's and such but that may be just me.
>
> Terry Price - W8ZN ex K8ISK
> FM18dv - 1.8MHz thru 47GHz
> K8GP - The Grid Pirates - FM19bb
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sean Kutzko, KX9X <kx9x@arrl.org>
> To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
> Sent: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:11:17 -0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] The January Contest
>
> Hi Phil (and everybody else)-
>
> Greetings from the Baltimore airport.
>
> My opinion on time changes: It seems moving it to 0000z Saturday puts a lot
> of burden on the Rovers. Either they take the day off of work to get ready,
> or they race home after work to get prepped for the start very quickly. In
> colder climates, starting a rove at night doesn't sound very thrilling to me.
> That's just my opinion. I guess it boils down to whether any given rover
> would prefer to be tired up front or tired at the end of the event(or both).
>
> There's the propagation wildcard, too. If there's no enhancement on 6 or 2 at
> 0000z, between a slow evening start and the overnight, you're going to enter
> the contest with a lot of dead time right off the bat. WSJT might cover some
> of that... maybe.
>
> As a fixed station, my personal preference would be to leave the times alone.
> It provides the rovers a chance to get a good night's sleep before the
> contest and allows time in the morning for me to do other things (sleep in,
> do stuff with friends/family) before the event starts.
>
> I suppose there could be some merit to starting it at, say, 1200z or 1500z
> Saturday. 1200z seems awfully early to begin a rove on the West coast,
> though, and they're not going to work a lot of folks... I doubt many casual
> ops in W6/W7 are going to get up at 4am Saturday to start the contest.
>
> Your mileage may vary...so to speak.
>
> 73,
>
> Sean Kutzko KX9X
> Contest Branch Manager
> ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio
> 225 Main Street
> Newington, CT 06111 USA
> (860) 594-0232
> email: kx9x@arrl.org
>
> --- On Wed, 1/30/13, Phil Theis <phil@k3tuf.com> wrote:
>
> From: Phil Theis <phil@k3tuf.com>
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] The January Contest
> To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 9:22 PM
>
> Hi Sean,
> Glad you addressed this, but you didn't address the idea of a time change.
> Your thoughts?
> thanks
> Phil K3TUF
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