This has just been posted on the ARRL site: < http://www.arrl.org/news/view/arrl-2016-august-uhf-contest-cancelled > I have promised to myself to try not to make cynical and snarky comments on this l
This is unfortunate. James my experience during the UHF contest has at times been similar to yours but I still enjoyed it. Having a contest where I was able to focus on the higher bands had some adva
I have to assume that the folks on these committees are people who care about our unique form of contesting and arrived at their decision based on careful thought. The above is NOT meant to be sarcas
That sure is a "kick-in-the-head" to all the effort we have been putting into the K2LIM contest station to provide contact ability up through 10 GHz. Guess we should have stayed as a 4 band station "
I agree with Ken that I too never saw any discussion on this. I am VERY disappointed with the decision especially as I just spent a lot of money last year to get on 10 ghz and was amazed at the great
My thoughts were the same as Keith's when I first saw this announcement-how many resources are being saved by cancelling it? I would guess that 99% of the logs are received in Cabrillo format, so tha
Author: Keith Morehouse <w9rm@calmesapartners.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:44:20 -0700
As I mention in my first reply, the ARRL already farms out all the contest articles to (mostly) non-staffers. -RM Keith J Morehouse Managing Partner Calmesa Partners G.P. Olathe, CO _________________
This decision caught me by surprise as well. Though I conduct the NCJ and QST VHF columns, I was unaware of the ARRL UHF contest cancellation until reading it here. IF you disagree with this decisio
ARRL Ad Hoc Subcommittee on VHF and Above Revitalization made the recommendation to cancel the UHF contest. Last year they asked for input on how "to expand participation in the August UHF contest. T
correction -- the comments I quoted were from Duffey KK6MC, not W9RM. Upset hearing about this... - N0JK _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@conte
Lol! Sadly, N5UWY has no presence above 144 MHz (well, 70 cm FM) so I have no iron in the UHF Contest fire, but I think running the callsigns on this CAC list through a few VHF+ contest logs might be
Did ya'll read the announcement CAREFULLY ?? It appears not all did. It DID NOT say the UHF contest was definitely cancelled forever ! It said that after many comments received from members (sounds l
The CAC does not have final say over anything and only considers HF contesting issues, anyway. Reading the announcement carefully, the issues are being handled by an ad hoc VHF Contesting Revitalizat
Isn't one reason that it is in August is that the tropo is usually better then than in the spring? John AF5CC _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@
I also read it as: "Aug UHF to be resched", with eager anticipation. In Mid-Atl, there is a popular hamfest that coincides with the UHF 'Test. So a re-sched would ////perhaps//// be a good thing at l
Ron, WW8WR brought up a good point regarding the announcement. "It (the announcement) DID NOT say the UHF contest was definitely cancelled forever !" And the announcement also says: "The Committee wi
Please see below: 73 Mark S VE7AFZ Sent from my iPhone That may be but a scheduled UHF contest in August of 2016 is not going to happen. I consider that particular occurrence of that event has now be
Sorry these contests are all starting to seem the same. Ran the full setup on the Saturday during the UHF contest last year, I ran a smaller setup on the second day. I seem to recall the UHF contest
I answered those questions back last fall, way ahead of the deadline. I thought they were pretty lame then and still do now. That being said, I did comment on how I go about showing and helping those
Hi Ken and all interested in this topic....I know a few of the members of the Committee. ALL of the members of the committee are true VHFers and in my opinion, they really do care. I hope that someth