On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Bill Olson wrote:
> Hi Terry, Long time, how are tyou doing?? I agree with you that the whole
> contest scoring thing needs to be reviewed. As you say, VHF contesting does
> not seem to be an ARRL priority! Not much (contest rules I mean) has changed
> in the last 30 years and it probably should. I guess grid squares for
> multipliers leveled the playing field a little and Rovers did as well. W2SZ
> discoverd that a long time before there was a ROVER category as did the guys
> in Kansas when WB0DRL was scoring so well with Dean, WA0TKJ out in the
> "rover". But the rover class got a whole bunch of people "interested".. and
> that helped everyone.
>
Hi Bill,
Nice to see you're still around! How have you been?
It seems the contesting community in general doesn't put much attention on
VHF contesting. I haven't seen summaries of posted results for a VHF
contest on the cq-contest reflector for some time.
I'm an avid contester on all bands. Our multi-single operation W9SZ won
9-land in CQWW CW this year. But I particularly like VHF/UHF contesting.
I'd really like to see more people active. This area (east central
Illinois, EN50) is somewhat of a desert for bands above 144 MHz.
73, Zack W9SZ
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