I agree with most everyone else, a 10 & 6 meter contest would be fun!
Given a few points such as:
1. A new contest, don't take away from any of the existing contests VHF
or HF...
2. Use VHF contest general rules. QSO's X Grids, etc...
3. I agree that E'skip season would be ideal, but, it may be a bit
tough to schedule. Between spring sprints, June VHF, Field Day, CQ-VHF,
IARU HF, it's a busy season. I'm not sure where to squeeze it in.
Zack is right, it will be another challenge for Rovers. Before I got into
VHF contest Roving, I used to do several of the HF contests as a portable,
10 meter only. The 102" whip will work well, particularly from a good
hilltop. One of my best contests was done from a local hilltop using a
homebrew "bigfoot" mast support, 12' of mast, and an Antron 99 tuned for 10
meters. The rig was an HTX-100 with about 25 watts out :-) Of course, this
was back in the early 90's when 10 was pretty hot.
Today, I would likely use my VHF Rover setup with the pickup truck and push
up mast. With the Moxon for 6 meters, and a 102" whip at the top of the
mast.
73
Dan
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-----Original Message-----
From: VHFcontesting [mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf
Of Zack Widup
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 1:16 PM
To: VHF Contesting Reflector
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] ARRL Proposal for a combined 10 Meter & 6 Meter
Contest
I imagine the scoring would be like the other VHF contests - the exchange
would be grid squares and the mults would be grid squares, unlike the 10
Meter Contest where the mults are states/provinces/DX entities.
The problem I have with my own participation is that I usually do portable
operations from hilltops, and a 10 meter antenna might be more difficult to
manage unless I go with a 102 inch whip on the car for 10m.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Vhfrover via VHFcontesting <
vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
>
> I would be in favor of a combined 6 and 10M contest as long as it would
> NOT diminish the existing annual December ARRL 10M contest in any way.
The
> existing 10M contest is very popular and I have enjoyed participating in
it
> with my portable setup from one of the local rover hilltops. A
combination
> 6 and 10M contest might even pull some of the HF contest operators to use
> the 6M position on their rigs.
>
> 73, Mike WB8BZK
>
>clip
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