> Hi all, Well, this is TRUE! But the same holds for moving stations up the
> band - a common practice on VHF that NEVER occurs on HF - , and the signals
> often get WEAKER as one QSY's up, and often the antennas are on the SAME
> mast! To me that seems OK, but it's exactly the same as prearranged skeds as
> far as the above argument goes....
NEVER? Not at all true. For the HF contests where mutlipliers count by
band, it is very common to move people from one band to another. This is
done a lot by DX stations in the CQ WW contest and by domestic stations
in the NAQP contests.
Not that it makes any difference to the bigger discussion.
> Another thing, VHF is a special "weak signal" case of operating. Maybe just
> hearing the "rogers" is OK. Take the example of TMO reporting on EME. This
> is an example of "pre-loading" by design... By the above reasoning, VERY
> MANY EME qso's now in the books would be bad... I dunno, there is no perfect
> answer here, but the discussion is always healthy I think.
I think the discussion is very good - to shed shome light on this and throw
around how we feel about it. Then, we can all go decide what we want to
do about it, if anything.
Tree
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