[CQ-Contest] VHF Contest - Self Spotting

[Gerry Hull]

Ed, you missed the memo.

http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-board-okays-changes-to-dxcc-program-vhf-and-above-contesting-rules

I've been doing VHF contests at a very high level for almost 30 years.
Some QSOs have been next to impossible without
some kind of non-ham-related liason.    The main reason they are allowing
this is because they want MORE
activity on VHF, UHF and uW...   use it or loose it.   We shall see if the
experiment works.

As I've told many -- much of the data being exchanged on the internet is
meta data about stations -- it is not QSOs.
It just enhances the possibility of a contact.  And in VHF and above,
making the contact is much harder than tuning the band to find someone.

73, Gerry W1VE
One of the W2SZ contest team (www.mgef.org)


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I must have "missed the memo" on this one if there was ever any dialog
> concerning this.  Anyone else think this is just a bad idea?
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> How is the self-spotting not going to turn into - QSO's over the internet
> pretty quickly.  It seems to me that if the ARRL wants to have a contest
> this way, someone out to be "monitoring" to keep the QSO' at least legit.
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> It will be interesting to see if this gets quickly out of hand.
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> I know that VHF contests can become boring.  But there are other ways to
> fight the boredom.  Watching baseball as you hit F1 comes to mind.
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> Ed  N1UR
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