I strongly agree that the ARRL January VHF should be moved to the last weekend in January. No conflict with the NFL playoff games and no conflict with the NAQP SSB. I've felt this way for years now.
Author: Keith Morehouse <w9rm@calmesapartners.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:59:15 -0600
Do we have the NFL on board for this move ? They have changed their dates around in the past and can in the future. The Super Bowel use to be in January - remember ? The farther into January you push
Gentlemen Years ago I do remember the contest being the week before the Super Bowl. I do feel it helped activity. But keep in mind, the ARRL has not changed the weekend of the contest. It's been the
Mike adds That was before they added two games to the season and then the "bye" week. -- Mike "Molon Labe" Urich KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com PIO STX-D14 S/E - APIC D1 & D14 http://harriscountyares.org L
I am a relative newbie to VHF contesting, so no problem moving it as far as I am concerned. HOWEVER - take a look at the contest calender. First weekend - ARRL RTTY Roundup Second weekend - ARRL NAQP
Hello Tom and everyone else interested in this topic..... After reading all the posts on this topic and some private posts to me, the following two topics seem to be the most discussed. Most of the p
If we could get ARRL to change the date, I would vote for the 1st weekend. I think there is less than a zero-point-one percent chance of that occurring, though. I think they won't change the hours, e
It appears that the first weekend in Jan is when the wild card games are played....one on Sat and one on Sun. Actually, two on Saturday and two on Sunday. They are usually scheduled so that in the Ea
It seems I always have other things going on just about every weekend anymore, so it doesn't much matter to me. I work around them. It could even be ON Superbowl Sunday for all I care. I have been an
So instead of changing the contest date, just change the time. 0000z Saturday until 1700z Sunday. This fixes a couple of things. It give two mornings for tropo and the contest is over before the foot
We are overlooking the obvious solution. The contest time needs to be redefined to be those times that the clock is not running during the football game. There are so many timeouts and commercial bre
I personally think the time change may be the best and easiest solution. The objective is to get more people to operate, and operate longer. By starting earlier in the day (both east and west coast),
If you factor in the world wide socker play offs with the NFL action you find a 2 hour window for our contests. Ok maybe a one hour window. If you are a real VHFer who wants to run and gun the Es you
Don't forget a couple of hours off in the morning for church going, and an hour off Sunday night for Downton Abbey. Chet, N8RA --Original Message-- From: VHFcontesting [mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces@c
When this subject first came up when the league changed their schedule the contest manager for ARRL said that the fact the NFL season has changed would never determine what weekend the Jan contest wo