Tor - One can enter 6M only in the CQ WW VHF contest. Lots of guys do it. It is one of the reasons the contest is so popular. The only real drawback to this is that Es is on the downswing when the co
Buddy - Thanks for your post, and especially thanks for getting involved in roving. Roving is the mothers milk of VHF+ contesting, there are too few of us, and your roving helps everyone. Thanks. I a
It looks like the ARRL BOD approved the Ad Hoc Committee's recommendations for Rules Changes pretty much verbatim effective with the June contest. Apparently the proposed new rules enjoyed strong sup
N6NB is having problems posting to this group so he asked me to post this for him. Lots of exciting things happening in VHF contesting. More on this after the January Contest. - Duffey KK6MC Begin Wa
The recent ARRL BOD minutes contain the following action on the new VHF contesting rules changes. The adapted rules pretty much follow the proposed rules with some clarification. As far as assistance
The ARRL VHF contests have a schizophrenic approach towards microwave activity. With the one hand, they seem to want to encourage microwave activity by awarding higher QSO points for the higher bands
One geographic advantage that those in northern latitudes enjoy could be easily leveled by normalizing raw scores: normalized score = raw score/(1+cos(latitude)) This would take of the smaller east-w
N6NB has asked me to post the following announcement about the San Bernadino Microwave Society 2 GHz and Up contest to the VHF Contesting reflector. This contest started out as a regional contest, bu
John - I havent seen a response to your question on the realism of the noise floors shown in ITU-R P.372-10, so I thought that I would take a crack at it. I think the numbers you came up with are rep
The recent exchanges here point out that there are still unresolved issues regarding rovers coordinating contacts and operating locales in VHF/UHF contests. This has been going on for nearly 22 years
This is long, but I didnt have the time to make it shorter. Please forgive the bandwidth. I am glad to see this conversation about assistance in the June contest taking place. Here are my thoughts, m
I am not sure what others, particularly rovers, are doing for assistance in the upcoming contest. I have some questions and comments. 0. Does anyone this list run a skimmer that feeds into the RBN? C
Chuck - Thanks for the reply. It is always nice to have some feedback to posts. The rule for assistance in the VHF contests specifically state that location is one of the items that can be in a self
Keith, you replied to my post: Well rovers are the mothers milk of VHF contesting, so it is important. And people move, and occasionally operate from other locations, so grids obtained from sources o
Chuck - There is a subtle point with not so subtle consequences here. KK6MC/r and KK6MC are not the same call and you could, in principle, have a busted QSO if you log KK6MC/r as KK6MC. As a rover, K
Another reason, if you are using a logging program, is that KK6MC/r is not likely to get flagged as a dupe when I move to a new grid. - Duffey KK6MC _______________________________________________ VH
Chuck - In the General Rules for all ARRL Contests: 3.2. All callsigns and exchange information must be sent, received, acknowledged and logged correctly by each station for a complete QSO." If you d
The rule says that you have to log the call that is sent. KK6MC/r is not the same as KK6MC. Adding /r does change your call for contesting purposes. That is the whole point of adding the /r. Can you
Yes, mobiles are not treated well in the rules if they stay in one grid. The Ad Hoc committee knows about this and it would be straight forward to fix, but it has not come about. If they want to enco
Gregg - Listen to the east. Activity in Albuquerque, Socorro, Moriarty grid convergence. You should be able to work us from Clovis. Sunday may be tougher, we will be in the western part of the state.