Hi all....considering the points by Bernie, W4SW and Neil ,one could ask
this:
If activity and use of the frequencies is not considered important enough to
the national amateur society to report same in its journal, QST, then it must
not be important at all. From that one could conclude that QST is just
another commercial radio magazine!!!
73,
John
W3HMS
10-10-02
In a message dated 10/10/2002 8:48:03 AM Eastern Standard Time,
gnspokes@earthlink.net writes:
>
>
> To promote VHF operation by hams, I have suggested a GOTA (get on the air)
> VHF station add-on to Field Day. How about a 2 X VHF multiplier for each
> VHF
> contact, a 4 X for >900 MHz and a 10 X for 10 GHz and above? (That would
> be
> on top of 4 points for a <150 W CW contact.) 40 points for a single 10 GHz
> CW contact would give the 'VHF station' some respect, not now accorded.
> I'm
> not much of a contester, but would enjoy bringing my VHF and 10GHz systems
> to FD for extra points and fun. In the past, people have been much too
> busy
> making HF contacts to give VHF anything but a minor nod of acceptance at FD
> (and in general) a 6 m station only gets us 200 points vs 1000's for a
> 'real' HF radio contact. FD is the major annual operating social event
> for
> many clubs - it's the one an only "y'all come" event for our local club.
>
> BTW - Yeah! We enjoy seeing in print how well our club station, W4VA, did
> in
> the FD QST issue.
> Neil.
>
>
>
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