VHF+ contesting is certainly a whole different ball game. I do both HF
and VHF+. I definitely have to shift gears when doing VHF contests.
Sometimes I sit for a half hour with no new QSO's in the log and sometimes
I'm kept so busy running bands that I miss out on people. The August
UHF contest was like that for me. I was evidently square in the middle of
a tropo opening that ran up to at least 10 GHz (my highest band) and was
good in all directions from me for over 400 miles.
HF contesters usually have 6 bands to run. I usually have 10 in the VHF
contests. When it's hopping, it's exciting.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Steve London wrote:
> Zack Widup wrote:
>
>> I have won several VHF contests for my state or division in my favorite
>> category. A few times I've done better than that. But some of my
>> competitors never post to 3830 and may in fact not even send in their logs
>> till the last minute.
>
> From my experience on the regional VHF reflector, I would say that a
> surprising
> number of VHF-only contesters have very different ethical standards than the
> vast majority of HF contesters. W3ZZ is to be commended for his fine QST VHF
> columns addressing these issues.
>
> 73,
> Steve, N2IC
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