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 an investment may have already decided they
wouldn't do so, anyway.
Here is my thought on the matter. If it is possible for a station to have more
QSOs and get more multipliers while working a single band in a contest, the
scoring regime needs to be revisited if a station using more than one band can
achieve a higher score than the single band station while gathering fewer QSOs
and fewer multipliers (total) than he.
73, Paul K7CW
From: "w8zn54@verizon.net" <w8zn54@verizon.net>
To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 5:53 PM
Subject: [VHFcontesting] Question to the group
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 10GHz in the 10GHz contest than
trying to catch them on 2m!!! It just seems that adding another band which
automatically gives you more Q's and grids is enough of a bonus. When getting
on the microwaves required an engineering degree and $20K in test equipment, I
would agree but now it just seems a relic.
Thoughts?
Terry Price
W8ZN - ex K8ISK/WD8ISK
1.8 MHZ - 47 GHz - FM18dv
Member of the K8GP Contest Group
FM19bb
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