DN60 and DN70 were not too active the last time I checked.
Joe W4AAB
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From: <w0eea@sbbco.net>
To: "VHFContesting" <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:58 AM
Subject: [VHFcontesting] More contest observations
> Hi,
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> I just read some interesting comments from a ham out East who
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> is going to give up roving because there are too many fixed
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> stations on the air from formerly rare grids and too many
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> rovers now operating out there. He should move to Colorado.
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> Within 2 grids (adjacent grids to DM79 and those touching
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> adjacent grids to DM79) there were several grids that have
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> been activated in the past by rovers that were not activated
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> in the September contest. Of the active grids, DN80, DM89,
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> DM88, DM87, DM77, and EM08 were worked here in September
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> only because of rovers. DM99 was not worked in Sept but
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> was worked in June only because of a rover. DN90 has only
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> been worked from W0EEA once (Sept 2000 only on 2M) and begs
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> for a rover.
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> As can be seen from the above, in the Denver area rovers are
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> essential to VHF and up contesting. The only way over half
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> of the local map is active in any given contest is if rovers
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> are there to activate those areas. The other obvious point
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> to be made is that rovers here need lots of gain and good
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> locations to make up for the vast changes in elevation from
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> the front range to many of the locations mentioned above.
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> DN80 and DM87 are grids that fall off the edges of the local
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> map, DM87, DM97, and DN90 more so. Rovers activating such
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> grids face difficult challanges to work even adjacent grids
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> let alone DX.
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> My thanks to those who have risen to these challenges and
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> roved here in the Denver area in the past. If you want to
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> try some real old time roving in the future, come to
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> Denver. We'll be listening for you.
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> 73,
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> Jim
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> w0eea@w0eea.com
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> www.w0eea.com
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