That's a good question. I generally take along all bands from 144 through
10368 MHz as a portable station in the VHF+ contests. I usually only take
50 MHz along during the ARRL June VHF and CQWW VHF contests. It usually
just isn't worth it taking 50 MHz along for all the others.
It seems many of the dyed-in-the-wool VHF contesters I have worked over the
last 20 years have disappeared. I know a few have passed away. I don't know
what happened to the rest of them I used to work in my area but haven't
heard on the air in some years.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 8:07 AM jimk8mr--- via VHFcontesting <
vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
> I wonder how much of the decline of VHF contests arises from every modern
> HF transceiver also having six meters?
> For a few months of the year there's lots of action there, and little
> reason to worry about higher bands. And people who listen there and hear
> hiss coming from their radios for the other ten months of the year have
> little incentive to acquire more radios with which to listen to hiss.
>
> 73 - Jim K8MR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k3sk@buckwalter.co
> To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
> Sent: Thu, Jan 13, 2022 8:54 am
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] A wild Idea to Fix Contest Activity
>
> Although the VHF/UHF contest survey is over, I just had an idea that could
> resolve the FT8 (digital) dominance during the contest. I just wish I had
> thought of this when I did the survey. My idea would require a change in
> the scoring method and the allow multiple contacts with the same station.
> Multipliers would remain the same.
>
> Here's the scoring change proposal ---
>
> 1 point for each 2-way digital QSO (FT8, MSK, Q65, etc..)
> 2 points for each analog QSO (SSB/CW)
>
> And, the biggest change would be to allow two QSOs per band with each
> station. One Digital and one analog. Digital would be regardless of
> which digital mode used and the analog would be SSB, CW or cross mode
> SSB/CW.
>
> I think this change could provide the incentive to get the crowd off of the
> FT8 frequencies and back up on the phone/CW portion of the band and might
> even boost the contest activity.
>
>
> de K3SK
> Dave Buckwalter
> FM07 - Farmville VA
>
>
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