I made no phone calls, sent or received no e mails and did not visit any chat rooms. But, I would be in favor of (almost) anything that would increase activity. Here in Florida there was little activ
But, I would be in favor of (almost) anything that would increase activity. I would too however, all we need to do is have more people go turn the radios on and .... "get on the air". Now notice ...
That was the big problem. There are numerous good operators with good stations , within troposcatter range of me, that were not heard from. Gotta keep trying... all we need to do is have more peopl
Author: Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:23:09 -0500
I had to drive from Tampa to Pensacola Sunday evening, so I put the loop on the work truck and called cq on 144.2 every 15 minutes for 5 hours. I worked 1 other mobile not in the contest, and listene
Thanks for trying, Drew. I can't think of anything that would have made me any happier than to hear a ragchew, three grids away. I would have interrupted them and exchanged grids! My score may have
Author: Keith Morehouse <w9rm@calmesapartners.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:40:45 -0500
I agree with Buddy. We need to increase participation. There is no reason rules for HF and VHF should be joined at the hip. I did use some chat this weekend, had a better time because of it and will
I was a Single-Op (QRP) Portable once again, as I have done for many years. I only got to be active for 5 hours on Sunday. Working up the bands to the microwave bands with a couple fairly local peopl
It seems to me that the above issue is not something that will not likely be solved by allowing any number of outside assistance. If you want to get people on the radio (or in the chat room etc) for
That is our problem. But, the question is how to promote the contest and to who? Buddy WB4OMG you have to promote the contest _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing lis
One way might be use of all the reflectors from VHF to microwave - and many were used I might add. It appeared to me, having operated for brief periods Sat afternoon, again that evening, early Sunday
You have a very good perspective on weak signal work. I am conducting a weak signal forum at the Tampa Bay Hamfest, in December. I am going to push the January contest as an introduction to VHF and U
I try to balance the tinkering with the operating. I'm building the stuff to actually use it, so why not get out and use it? Some of it takes a long time to build (I've been working on 47 GHz for a y
There is a few more things that I would add to this past weekend: There was two HF contests on - the WAE and the NA Sprint. I am a casual VHF'er, but I had a map up of 6 meter activity going and coul
Six being dead (at least here in Florida) was a huge problem. Usually guys get operate, Saturday afternoon working E skip on 6 and hang around to make contacts on the higher bands, that evening. Budd
Which contest disallows arranging a sked via email or any other non-amateur radio method prior to the contest? 73 de Sebastian, W4AS _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mail
Nothing. But the original poster was referring to spotting nets, chat rooms, Ping Jockey, etc. These are all DURING a contest. 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ VHFcontest
Check out "HF Contesting - Good Practices, Interpretations & Suggestions" on the Leagues website at http://www.arrl.org/hf-operating-guidelines . Here is a cut and paste from the pre-contest section
Keith..I did the same a year or two ago, and just submitted mine as a check log for the fellas I helped out..had too many other 'honey-do's that weekend to put in a FT effort in a contest. I Rx a cer
Submit it as a check log with soap box comments -- Original Message -- From: Keith Morehouse <w9rm@calmesapartners.com> To: VHF Contesting List <vhfcontesting@contesting.com> Sent: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 1