Look for me on 50 through 2304 mhz in the contest. E mail if you would like a sked. I am down to 30 watts on 902/3, lost the final but have about 100 watts or more on all other bands if everything ke
Hi George Coming from both a HF and VHF contesting background as well, I agree with Marshall. The way I remember it, HF contesters were the primary reason the rule concerning the use of phone calls d
Steve, I Feel your PAIN but would never remove 6 meter from the contest. I still found time to work 6 meters and 6 other bands during the contest. Some years 6 does not open very well in June and as
Dave, I use a computer to log with but never been bitten to use WSJT to make contacts. I still have the choice but elected to not use WSJT (yet). Some of the stations use the Software Defined Radio (
Hi Gabor I would and have for years like to see distance based scoring for the VHF contest. This keeps coming up and talked about but nothing ever happens. Some of the issues are that contest logging
Instead of inventing the wheel again we need to see how the VHF contest are administered in Europe using distance. I am sure a little research to find the right person to act as a consultant would cl
Hi Duane I agree with you. Leveling the playing field is certainly not the issue and distance scoring may or may not help. I do think it would help get the rovers off the roads and back to using high
Hi Les I think you will enjoy roving since I know something about the limited setup in antennas that you are using at home. As with any station design, you will first need to set your goal as to what
Good idea TOM. The rover rules have used up more cyber space than Classmates.com messages. Ron _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com
Like Jim, I am reluctant to get into this thread. The distance base score conversation seems to pop up about every year, I still have the E-MAILS from the last time it came up. The conversation gets
Hi Kevin Thanks for trying to get this group focused into a direction that could yield some results. I would like to include some basic information. I think a lot of us old timers remember the reluct
People enter radio contest for many different reasons. Sometimes 100's of thousands of dollars and super operators in the middle of the US will not win over a modest station in the NE. Obviously, the
Hi Paul Can you help me to understand why you think the work load would increase on the sponsors for distance scoring? I didn't think we are actually talking about a new set of rules only the way the
Hi Paul Thanks for the follow up. I agree that passing the 6 digit grid during the exchange might not be attractive to many operators including myself on some bands. On 902 mhz and up to 2.3 ghz I ru
Hang in there Frank. Operating with an intent to do something doesn't mean the goal is always achieved. You might tell your mother in law to stop smoking in the house and she keeps doing it. What wil
I have always had the vision to operate a VHF contest from the earth's moon. The only direction of the antenna would be toward the earth so it is like EME in reverse tracking. Stations on earth might
Hello Gents I got a question, can someone tell me why the CQ Contest rules never seem to come up for discussion on this list? Marshall, your e-mail was in my spam bucket for some reason. I just recei
contests were in years past is off. I always thought, perhaps >naively, that skeds weren't commonly used, or simply were not used for many of the Q's that ops made. So why now? Yes? No? Duane I don'
Hi Dustin Thanks for asking the question and good to have you in here. I will try to explain what schedules mean to me. Not during a contest period: If your trying to work a new grid, possibly a rove
Just a short answer will be fine, not to take up much bandwidth here. I am curious how many operators actually give both call signs in a contest QSO 100% of the time? Do you think giving both calls i