I post to these reflectors even less often than Terry, if that's possible. But, the whole issue of how the ARRL VHF contests are conceived is a long time question for me. Before anyone or everyone ge
GET MORE PEOPLE ACTIVE! I don't know that a change in the rules is going to give me or anyone in this area of the country a better chance if there's very few stations to work anyway. My QRP portable
Hi Clarke and all, Yikes, this subject is sure bringing folks out of the woodwork. That is good i think. Here are some things to mull over. 1. Is the reason there is a decline in contest activity bec
I really wish someone would give us some hard numbers of this "decline in contest activity". I have seen this thrown up several times on this list in the last year but I do not recall anyone providin
In my opinion as someone fairly new to VHF Contesting, who actively promotes it to new Hams, I explain that VHF contesting is good practice for covering a region in emergencies. All of these No-Code
Tom, I never saw the original message but I do have a comment on it. One of the worst things that has happened to the VHF contests recently is the limited multi-op category. Stations that used to be
< 3. The value of each grid square multiplier is based on the distance of the center of that grid to the center of your grid. To make things easy, your own grid would count as one. The next grid over
This class has recently became of interest to me as my rover hopes are falling short due to vehicle conditions and my want to have my own vhf contesting station. I was happy to find this class of con
I agree with Russ. The low power category could do what limited multi-op was intended to do. Let's go with low and high power multi-op, along with low and high single op, to allow for a level playing
I agree with Russ. It's a crying shame how many microwave QSOs have been lost since limited-multi came into "vogue". I think multis who used to be on higher bands, and have now removed them need to r