As this thread becomes more incoherant (many of us don't belong to all of the lists cc'd, so our replies will be missed)...I keyed in on the actual request, "to determine if the rule should be modifi
Hi Ev, I'll volunteer an answer based on my own observations. The intent of the rule in the first place was to eliminate QSOs with a flashlight and eyes. The term coherence has been questioned over t
Note that the VUCC rules also state "laser above 300 GHz" for that award. I wonder if that can also be changed some day to include other types of light sources? It appears eight people have VUCC for
Author: George Sintchak/WA2VNV <wa2vnv@optonline.net>
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:28:39 -0500
My $.02 thoughts (coherent or not). Laser or LED, coherent or not? Which mode gets the message completed for a valid contact? Does it really matter? A non-coherent flashlight emitter aimed at an elec
This part of the VHF contest rules has been suspect and open to debate for at least 30 years now and I have been VHF-UHF contesting for over 40 years. Why not get rid of the debate and/or need for fu
Hi Ron....WELL SAID....I posted something similar recently to my VUAC rep. I encourage you to send your post to your rep as well. Here is what I sent privately to another op on this question: Unfortu
I feel people are missing the point. We are talking about amateur radio. Amateur RADIO. Of course you can copy Morse code sent by a flashlight with your eyes, but does this relate to RADIO? You canno
All: Fiber-optics terminate at my home for Internet and phone service. While the transmission medium is light based when I pick up the phone receiver, the human communication factor is always audible
why... just because its 432thz instead of 432mhz.. Sounds more like you want nothing to do with it, so its unfair that others might get contest credit for the contacts made there, since you are not.