Here's another reason I think the CQ VHF in July has soared in popularity:
It allows stations without weak-signal UHF/microwave capabilities -- most of
us,
after all -- to enter and be competitive! You can even enter as a single-band
station, which is what I do (6 meters), as I don't have a competitive 2-meter
antenna system.
I would strongly recommend this same strategy for the ARRL June contest where
sporadic-E propagation dominates. (Leave September and January as they are,
more
or less.) I think differentiating it in this way would raise the participation
in this event even more.
Bill W5WVO
kevin kaufhold wrote:
> Thanks Tad for the comment on they QST article.
>
> As to the strong uptick in June, I think it is related to both the HF
> + 6 rigs and the club competition since 2003. I wrote a prior article
> comparing June as well as CQ VHF to January. It is at NCJ, Jan / Feb
> 2007, at 25, "Are Changes Blowing in the Wind". In that article, I
> suggested that there was a definite linkage between the profileration
> of HF + 6 rigs as well as the club competition and the increase in
> June logs. I believe July CQ VHF is also benefitting from the HF + 6
> rigs, even without a club competition.
>
> Kevin
> W9GKA
>
>
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:37:29 -0500
> From: Tad Danley <tdanley@suddenlink.net>
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] October QST article by W9GKA
> To: VHF contesting list <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
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> Kevin, congratulations on the excellent article on VHF contesting
> trends
> in QST! I enjoyed the historical commentary and your data analysis of
> the log entries by contest and year. Do you think the recent uptrend
> in
> June contest logs is related to the availability of HF+50 MHz rigs
> from
> most every manufacturer?
>
> Thanks and 73,
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