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[CQ-Contest] Does Dayton hurt the WPX CW Contest?

Subject: [CQ-Contest] Does Dayton hurt the WPX CW Contest?
From: n4zr@contesting.com (Pete Smith)
Date: Wed Apr 18 03:58:08 2001
At 10:56 PM 4/17/01 -0400, Bill Fisher W4AN wrote:
 >
 >
 >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 weekends in a row, and
 >one of them being on a holiday weekend.  Scott said that he was pretty
 >much in the same boat, except that he was doing the Dayton thing.
 >
 >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?
 >

That has been my situation both last year (my first at Dayton) and this...
Fortunately I found the tradeoff worth it.

73, Pete N4ZR
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