A couple of other observations on VHF contests:
The inverse corelation of HF and VHF activity is not at all surprising.
Over the past few years I have not been as active in VHF contests as I was
back
in 1996 or so. But soon, maybe even by this fall, I'll be able to work more
people on 6 and 2 meters in a VHF contest than I will be able to work on 15
and 10 meters in a DX contest. This was certainly not true in 1999!
With a mediocre station, which may be solely the result of a mediocre
location (e.g. elevation and other terrain factors) it can be very discouraging
to
hear very close by stations working stuff you can't even hear, and then
telling them "you're S9++ here at my location".
A few months back, K8CC clearly pointed out that to get the IC-706 crowd
into VHF contests, what is needed most is a simple, easy to install, good
performing, multi band VHF antenna. Sort of a TH-6DXX for VHF.
73 - Jim K8MR
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