Does anyone feel that giving extra points for 2.3G and up has out lived it's usefulness? You can order a complete high quality transverter system from DEMI or DB6NT and it's easier to work folks on 1
Author: Keith Morehouse <w9rm@calmesapartners.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 18:57:57 -0700
If anybody cares about my opinion, I think they should stop increasing point/Q above 900 or 1296...maybe even lower. Jay W9RM DM58 Keith J Morehouse Managing Partner Calmesa Partners G.P. Olathe, CO
Author: peter heins via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:37:40 -0800
Retai9n higher point incentives on higher bands. On the 'left coast' where I operate from LAX, CA & Seattle, WA areas, darn few are capable of much equipment above 70 cm. Many in SoCal who can, are p
Hi Terry, I don't know what the activity is like in your area, but I often have to fight for those QSO's. I've spent as much as a half hour trying. They are not a walk in the park here. Conditions ha
Terry. Yours is a very East-Coast-centric view of VHF/UHF contesting. Out here in DM65, finding contacts even on the lower bands is challenging enough. If I were to invest in equipment for 2.3GHz and
Gents, I normally do not weigh in on a lot of the discussions but I have to disagree about taking away extra points for the higher bands. I fall in the medium category or maybe a bit lower and having
Author: Keith Morehouse <w9rm@calmesapartners.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 07:47:56 -0700
East coast-centric view ? It's anything but. High points for QSO's above 222 is one of the east coasts big advantages. They are the guys with the population to make that work for them. Frankly, I'm s
Keith. What you say is true IF you believe that contesters in DM65, DM58 and other dark holes are in serious competition with the East Coast contesting hordes. We are not and we will never be without
Author: Keith Morehouse <w9rm@calmesapartners.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 08:41:30 -0700
Well, I certainly consider MYSELF to be in serious competition with the east coast (in June and July) ! I can't speak for others not located east of the Mississippi River or within reach of the grid-
Author: Keith Morehouse <w9rm@calmesapartners.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 09:02:12 -0700
Bob, I could try to find a couple who knew how to get their 706's above 28 MHz, but the hundreds of miles we need to drive around the mountains to activate more then one grid corner would be problema
Regarding Terry's question and avoiding the east/west issues, I would keep scoring as it is. Here in the "RF Wasteland" of the desert southwest most folks do not ever consider a transverter of any ki
Author: Paul Kiesel via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:37:50 +0000 (UTC)
Hi Terry, I guess the majority responders to your question already have invested into buying the equipment necessary to operate on the higher bands. And I also guess that those who haven't made such
I would be thrilled to hear anyone on any band above 432 in my area. I would be thrilled to hear QRM on 432 here. 73 John AF5CC EM04to _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting ma
I cant afford to invest in equipment above the 4 bands I have. Im a rover partly due to this fact, the other is my dad was a rover so thats what I love. But the expence to add a band then another the
It is interesting to me that a couple of the big unlimited multi-op stations have dropped back into the limited class in the last couple of years, citing the poor return on the effort expended. One i
I told myself I wasn't going to get sucked into another discussion of The Right Scoring Formula for VHF contests. :-) I will point out that the ARRL rules have been trending towards creating "limited
Author: WA2TEO--- via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 19:02:51 -0500
I understand the goal of increasing participation on the higher bands and support that. I think it would be a shame to negatively impact microwave activity in the contest since that is when most of t
The ARRL VHF contests have a schizophrenic approach towards microwave activity. With the one hand, they seem to want to encourage microwave activity by awarding higher QSO points for the higher bands
I thrive on microwave QSO's, both in and out of contests. In this area we have "microwave activity days" on the first Saturday of the month. I have also been known to take trips to a hilltop on an ea
Hi Duffy I would have to agree. We need people on the bands. The problem is not the League rules. The problem is activity. There is no reason to get on the VHF bands at this time, so no one gets on t