AY-MEN to that, Ty. And you didn't mention the outta nowhere sporadic E
openings on 6 meters (better than ten even!) plus the meteor pings that
give you one shot at the call and grid--if you are lucky! Or the
frustration of a ping with half a callsign from new grid. Or its
working the troposcatter barely above the noise level at 5 am after a
night of cq'ing at a 5 per hour rate. Boring? No way! Challenging?
You bet. (I love it!) You guys take you 6 meter rigs to Dayton so I can
work you in the sprint!
73, Rol, K3RA (6 meters at K3MQH, among other things)
tgstewart@pepco.com wrote:
>
> Man, all this griping about contest rules/formats again... hey, it's a
> contest
> and wouldnt it be boring if they were all the same or even if they were all
> "perfect"?
>
> The VHF Sprints have their place and they are fine the way they are (except
> for
> the 6 meter portion which needs to be moved off of Dayton weekend). If you
> dont
> like 'em, you dont have to get on and work anybody, and you can always start
> your own contest and do better :)
>
> For those who think VHF contesting is just completely boring, I would suggest
> it's just different. Yes, it's not the fast paced SS blast-away working 40
> over
> signals. Nope! It's a couple of 80 over signals blasting your front end,
> line
> noise to eliminate (way worse than HF), then scraping the barrel for that next
> grid that is in there one minute and faded the next. It's waiting all weekend
> for a 1500 mile 2 meter opening that lasts 10 minutes, but jumping for joy
> when
> you were savvy and alert enough to catch it and take it for all it was worth.
> It's the art of passing QSO's and Mult's to other bands at it's absolute best!
> Station RF design is much more complex than on HF done at the same
> level...it's
> just on a smaller scale. It's Phone, CW, HSCW, and EME! It's tweaking the
> antenna stack 5 degrees to peak up the next QSO while straining the limits of
> your ESP to dig out a callsign that you should recognize as a regular VHFer.
>
> Somehow it doesnt sound all that boring to me!
>
> It's all what you make of it. VHF is every bit as challenging as an operator
> and certainly more as a station designer than HF.
>
> 73, Ty K3MM (2m op at K3MQH among other things...)
>
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