A couple of comments. The June Stew is the weekend before field day.
There is activity from the IARU on 160 meters as multipliers count once per band. I remember having some fun there for the first 5 or 10 minutes of the contest back when there was a bit more activity from the South Pacific. Also - quite easy to work a few JAs if they are around. The east coast guys can even work some of the HQ multipliers that we can't hear on the west coast. Maybe some dedicated activity hours? Maybe like 0400-0800 UTC or something (which leaves out some people obviously). Don't expect to work KL7. Think of the June Stew as an activity night. No weekend is going to be without conflicts - but maybe the die hard 160 types will show up and hand out some QSOs. Here are the results from last year: http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/SummerStew2011.txt The top QSO total was 94 QSOs. Not a lot - but more than you would have worked on most other evenings. :-) This was the first running of the event - so hopefully, there will be a bit more activity the second time. Tree N6TR On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:31 AM, DAVID CUTHBERT <[email protected]>wrote: > I beleive there is the issue holding the June Stew on Field Day; there will > not be many serious efforts on top band. > > Do we need four hour top band contests or an occasional QSO party? > Something less formal than a full blown contest? > > Dave WX7G > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Jim Brown <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On 3/18/2012 6:55 AM, Steve London wrote: > > > Hence, my suggestion to make the already-popular, all-HF-band, SSB/CW, > > IARU HF > > > contest the summer 160 meter event. > > > > The problem with that approach is that no one attempting a serious > > effort in IARU is going to be on 160M. > > > > 73, Jim K9YC > > _______________________________________________ > > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
