But Zack,
You can't enter the 10ghz contest in the rover category because you might lose
to the grid circlers!
73s John AA5JG
--- On Mon, 9/21/09, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Zack Widup <w9sz.zack@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Contesting question
> To: "VHF Contesting Reflector" <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
> Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 12:03 PM
> I never enter a contest with the hope
> of winning it. Sometimes I do by
> default, as in the January contest when no one else in the
> area enters as a
> Single-Op (QRP) Portable because the weather is too bad.
>
> I do it just for fun and to make noise on the bands. The 10
> GHz contest this
> past weekend was a blast roving down the west shore of Lake
> Michigan.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:44 AM, John Geiger <aa5jg@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have learned from the (endless) discussion of rover
> rules on the
> > reflector that you are not supposed to enter a contest
> unless you have an
> > expectation of winning it. Now here is my
> problem, due to station
> > limitations and operating time limitations, I know
> that I will not win any
> > VHF contest even before the contest starts. I
> guess that means that I won't
> > be participating in any more VHF contests.
> However, I do like VHF operating
> > and making contest QSOs, so is there a VHF contest
> that doesn't keep score
> > that I can enter? After all, I want to do the
> right thing by the VHF
> > community by not entering any of the ARRL VHF contests
> or the CQVHF contest
> > since I know I won't win it.
> >
> > 73s John AA5JG
> >
> >
> >
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