[MiQP-Mail] Can anyone read calendars for future years?

[Hank Greeb]

Folks in OhHoHo moved the Ohio QSO Party from the last weekend in August 
to the 4th weekend in August because of a conflict with Labour Day every 
now and then.

Shucky durn, even the Dayton Hamblyvention moved from April to May to 
(try to) get away from lousy weather, so dates aren't stoned in cast.  
Of course, the rains and other miserable weather seemed to follow it, 
but that's beside the point. 

Easter is known years ahead (probably centuries ahead, if one were a 
religious scholar).  A year or two before the next time this happened 
the MiQP could be moved one week forward or one week backward for those 
fairly rare occasions when Easter hits on the 3th weekend of April, and 
the change could be publicized that early.  Or MRRC could appoint a 
research team to discover the next four or five times when Easter is on 
the 3nd weekend, and start publicizing the changed dates right now.  I'd 
suspect that the coincidence of Easter and MiQP's "traditional weekend" 
doesn't happen more than once every six or more years, so it shouldn't 
be a big deal.....

73 de n8xx Hg

David Pruett wrote:

>At 07:37 AM 4/6/2006, you wrote:
>  
>
>>The 1st weekend in April would be a good one, yeah it had the MOqp. and 
>>QCWA but I didn't hear a hand full of ops from them. Then there's the 
>>weekend after the WIqp that only has the VAqp which again I only heard a 
>>couple operating. Then there was last weekend with only the ALqp of which 
>>I heard none, how many would you lose to that?
>>
>>There's alot of alternative dates to choose from, but Easter weekend! :-(
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>Dwight,
>
>Your suggestion really doesn't help.  Easter is not always the same weekend 
>every year.  If it was, we would indeed move MiQP.  However, there are 
>years when Easter is on the first weekend in April.  There are even years 
>that its the last weekend in March (i.e., CQ WPX SSB weekend).  And that's 
>my point - *ANY* weekend in April might be Easter on any given year, except 
>(I think) the last weekend and that's Florida QSO Party, one of the biggest 
>QPs of the year.
>
>So there are indeed NOT a lot of alterative dates to choose from.
>
>Dave
>