I agree 100% with WW2Y's posting and his take on the current state of VHF
contesting. Computers contacting other computers and calling it a radio contest
doesn't work for me. I would much prefer to be involved in the contacts and do
the work myself through traditional voice modes and CW. I particularly like the
suggestion to split up each ARRL VHF Contest into 2 segments, like the CQ WW
VHF Contest now is, with one segment for the computers only to slug it out and
one segment only for the human operators using traditional modes and using
their skills to make contacts.
73, Steve W1NIV
On Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:18:38 PM EDT, peter hutter via
VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
My few cents worth. For quite some time now, a number of serious contest
stations, whether they're Single Operator or Multioperator have figured out a
method how to maximize their scores, by having unmanned stations running on FT8
simultaneously in order to stay competitive.The operator at the manned station
is either on analog or digital. This operating technique encourages FT8
activity and deters analog activity. Why? The FT8 mode is on a designated
channel per band and it doesn't require operator skill to generate points.
We're becoming "lazy". It's too much work to actually tune the bands for
finding stations to call, or to call CQ in hopes that a random station answers.
I'm guilty of this practice and the gratification is minimal at best. If you're
not taking advantage of this, you're losing!
I like W8ZN's idea of splitting the contest into two parts. Day one for analog
and day two for digital. I don't mind which one starts.
73,Peter WW2Y
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM, Terry Price<terry@directivesystems.com>
wrote:Well,
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