> http://www.icom.co.jp/world/d-contest/
Another aspect to consider is most contests are 4 hours to 48 hours and thus concentrate the contestants within a time frame where a number of other contestants are likely to be on. This is a one week contest, and there may not be a whole lot of participants (at least outside of JA land), so it will be easy to get frustrated calling CQ - and you may annoy some folks a la other contests. Hence, maybe we should try to pick some times within the week where interested folks would make an effort to call CQ or listen? One thought would be to concentrate efforts starting on the hour. Another thought would be to do the above but only on certain hours, especially during the week when activity will be lowest, perhaps even hours or odd hours or every third hour - 0000, 0300, 0600, etc. So for the sake of argument (we love to do that here), I propose that if we plan to work this contest for a while, we try to start calling CQ on every third hour - 0000, 0300, 0600, etc. Don't forget to spend some time listening too... Too complicated? Not worth the planning? 73 -- John
