Folks, I've got to chime in on this one. I'm coming from the perspective of someone who's built an 11-band station from the ground up, and is actively involved in Microwave contesting, in addition to
K2AXX makes some very rational points here. The whole purpose of the VHF contests is to encourage pushing the frontiers in station design and operating. You can bet that the guy who has a good signal
Really? Maybe that is your interpretation. I don't think it can be called the "whole" reason. Here are some other ones that I think are valid: 1. Provide an opportunity for people that never hear any
Tree, Your other reasons are certainly valid and, if you ask why I get on for any particular contest your numbers 2 and 3 are probably the main ones, so I agree with you. But, in terms of the good of
Hogwash! That may be one purpose but competition between entrants to get the biggest score has got to be the main purpose of most contests. Jim, AF6O frontiers
A. The controversy about absolute number of stations is "easily" decided: League has the logs, let them set up a file for each contest with totality of diffeerent stations worked on each band, and nu
Geoff et al While its true that money spent on the upper bands doesn't generate the large number of contacts that 6M and 2M can it does generate those all important multipliers. that is what wins con
Hi Jim, I am not so sure it is "hogwash". If you look at the history of just about every contest, they had their roots in developing the bands and getting more activity and better stations on those b
every activity I don't know if that is true or not but even if it is that does not mean it still applies to contesting today. You have picked on a couple of atypical contests that may be exceptions,
Hi guys, This has been a VERY interesting thread. I agree with a lot of it and disagree with a lot. But here's a few things that come to MY mind anyway. I am not on VHF and above ONLY because of cont
Hi Bill, No piling-on from me. I agree with your post and it pretty much echo's my vhf+ operating philosophy. I presently can only get on for the big contests, some of the sprints and the occasional
Hello all, My two Eurocent broad band approach . Been following the subject a while? Is there any body who can explain why amateur fisherman, when they catch fish, some eat them, other sell them, and
1. The perception that VHF contesting has become "defacto" microwave contests. I really don't believe this is so, at least here in the upper Midwest, do having the microwave bands make a big differen
Author: kb1grs-vhfcontesting@vms.gratuitous.org (Joel N. Weber II)
Date: Thu Jun 19 16:44:39 2003
1. The perception that VHF contesting has become "defacto" microwave contests. I really don't believe this is so, at least here in the upper Midwest, do having the microwave bands make a big differen