To answer the question posed about how hard is to log contacts
on the wrong band given that in 2002 everyone has computer control
of the rigs...
It is very easy to log contacts on the wrong band in a VHF contest.
There are no "all-band" VHF/UHF contest radios. A typical VHF contest
station might look like: http://n5xu.ae.utexas.edu/n5xu/vhf.html
You have one or two rigs for 50, 144, and 432, but you need to use
transverters for 222, 1296, etc. You may have almost one rig per band,
and I don't know of any major contest logging software that can handle
the concept of five or six computer-controlled rigs, with each one
representing one or two or three bands, each possibly reporting the
IF frequency rather than the RF frequency...
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Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R
Department of the Computer Sciences VP, Central Texas DX & Contest Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124 Maintainer of Linux on Laptops
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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