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[VHFcontesting] Re: [CQ-Contest] Six Meter Contest

To: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>,"CQ Contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>,"VHF Contesting" <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Subject: [VHFcontesting] Re: [CQ-Contest] Six Meter Contest
From: "Bob Naumann - N5NJ" <n5nj@gte.net>
Reply-to: Bob Naumann - N5NJ <n5nj@gte.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 07:25:20 -0600
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Uh, there are a few of them every year.  The next one is the January VHF 
contest.  The exchange is your grid square.

Good comparison - 6 meters is a lot like 10 meters was this past weekend.

73,
N5NJ
EM13


> ------------Original Message------------
> From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
> To: CQ Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>, VHF Contesting 
> <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
> Date: Mon, Dec-15-2003 11:02 PM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Six Meter Contest
> 
>      Having just operated the ARRL 10 Meter Contest this weekend, I think
> one of the big contest sponsors (ARRL, CQ, or maybe NCJ) should sponsor a 
> similar Six Meter Contest.  Six Meters is a great band, and is the obvious 
> gateway band to getting both non-HF ops exposed to contest and HF-style 
> operating, and getting HF ops exposed to VHF.  In North America, the only six 
> meter single band contests are sponsored by fairly obscure groups and have
> predictably low participation.  I can understand the ARRL not wanting to 
> sponsor six or seven single band VHF+ contests like they used to do (the 
> former ARRL Spring Sprints) but surely a big Six Meter contest would be a 
> great thing.
> 
>      The 10 Meter could be a guide for format.  The entry categories would
> by Single-Op CW (H/L/Q), Single-Op Phone (H/L/Q), Single-Op Mixed (H/L/Q), 
> and Multi-op.  Assuming the possibility of Eskip is important, maybe make it
> W/VE works everyone, DX works W/VE, and hold it on, let's say, the third 
> weekend of May, Saturday 1200 UTC through 0600 UTC Sunday.  Exchange is grids,
> scoring is QSOs by grids.  Or something like that.
> 
>      Wouldn't that be fun?  
> 
> -- 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Kenneth E. Harker      "Vox Clamantis in Deserto"      kharker@cs.utexas.edu
> University of Texas at Austin                   Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R
> Department of the Computer Sciences          Central Texas DX & Contest Club
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> Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA            http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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