Unfortunately the news about the correct dates for the upcoming January VHF Sweepstakes did not reach everyone. At 1900 utc today I heard several locals calling "CQ Contest" on 6 Meters. Here is a li
Regarding stations "working the contest" this weekend, there was an Es opening on 6 Meters Saturday evening. Stations in Colorado, Nebraska and Missouri had a nice opening into W3, W4, W5, and W8 fro
Whew! I'm glad we ducked THAT bullet. Let's hope we don't have to put up with Es next weekend. <grin> Ev, W2EV More "pesky" Es this evening on 6M from Florida to the midwest and midwest to west coast
I'm not intending to pick on anyone....simply inform the masses. How many of us actually print out published rover schedules? How many Rovers keep their schedules fully? Rhetorical....I'm not asking
Weather channel now predicting rain for eastern KS Saturday (and snow for KC). EM08 may be dry afterall. IF so... will operate from EM08. The dilemma of trying to out fox Mother Nature as a single op
Ed, VP9GE informed me that he made over 400 QSOs on 6M yesterday in the contest. He worked VE1, W1, W2, W3, W4, and W8 from about 1930 to after 2345 utc. Great show, Ed! - N0JK ______________________
I made one Es QSO on 6 Meters in the contest - WA7JTM DM33 Arizona early Sunday afternoon. Peter was 5 x 9 for about 10 minutes on my ice covered dipole and MFJ-9406 in EM18. NJ2F EL96 was in and out
I am looking at the FT-100D vs. the IC-706MIIG for a new contest DXped. radio for the June VHF QSO Party. Any opinions as to FT-110d being better than the ICOM for contesting on VHF? I currently use
KA0KCI sent me this, may be of interest to those in the midwest. KANSAS VHF-UHF SSB QSO PARTY MARCH 27, 2004 at 1800 GMT through March 28, 2004 at 1800 GMT (Saturday noon through Sunday noon CST ) Ba
As the new Midwest Division representative to the CAC (and a long time VHF Contester) I will be following the comments on this Reflector to Tom K1KI's recommendations closely to help gather and prese
Proposed changes to the ARRL VHF Contests to increase DX station participation. 4) New categories in Jan/Jun/Sept I recommend the establishment of a "DX Category" for the ARRL Jan/Jun/Sept VHF Contes
My 3 cents...de W3IY/R I think it's great that some people want to make VHF contests better, and encourage more activity and participation. I think the best way to do this is for QST to promote more
So if we want to increase activity and participation on VHF/UHF bands, we need to hit it from several areas. At the top, the ARRL needs to rethink their educational approach to include and encourage
In the March/April 2004 issue of the NCJ (National Contest Journal) are two articles of interest to VHF+ Contesters. One is an excellent essay on stacking yagis on 6 Meters by Mike, K9MK "A Six Meter
b) Allow DX-to-DX contacts for QSO point and multiplier credit, but the DX station must make at least one QSO. with W/VE on each band for which QSOs are submitted. I fail to see the need to put this
Very sad to hear the news about Bill, W4AN. Bill supported VHF contesting(hosting this e-mail Reflector on his web site among other things). I met him once years ago at Dayton in the contest suite. W
but I find it mildly amazing that nobody has ever entered the contest (in any category) from KP2, even just on six meters. - WM5R There were at least 4 stations active on 6 Meters in the June 2003 VH
Back in the 1992 June VHF QSO Party I worked VE8KM DP20 on 6M Saturday evening, and 3 Alaskan stations in the contest from WBØDRL EM18. - NØJK I don't think it's a huge surprise to lear
This is excellent Ken. I agree, well done, Ken. It's pretty clear from these maps that the June contest is very different from the January or September contests. Good observation. June has probably t
Hi Jon and others, I think this KP2 under reporting points up a problem with VHF contests in that casual operators may not send in a score. The result is that activity is under reported. Dave is righ