[SCCC] Would SCCC like to sponsor an alternative contest to Field Day?

[Michael Tope]

Dave, et al;

I've been playing around with DF3CB's Remaud for 2-way remote audio. 
It's specifically designed for doing ham radio remote audio. It's give 
you positive control of buffer size, sample rate, compression scheme, 
and PTT. The receive audio is superb. I still need to test the transmit 
audio, but I haven't gotten motivated to find the time get on SSB and 
give it a go.

https://www.df3cb.com/remaud/

73, Mike W4EF.........



On 4/26/2020 4:01 PM, Dave Hachadorian wrote:
> W6RW, N7TY and myself have been operating from my station for the past 
> few years as a home station on emergency power, operating one radio in 
> shifts. It will be the same this year, except that W6RW and N7TY will 
> be operating the station remotely, and I will be operating in person.  
> It's a simple remote setup, using Teamviewer to control N1MM Logger, 
> and Skype for 2-way audio.  It was a snap to set up, and worked right 
> out of the box.  We tested it for a short time in the Florida QSO 
> Party this weekend, and it worked great.
>
> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> Yuma, AZ
>
> -----Original Message----- From: B Anderson
> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 3:08 PM
> To: Jess Guaderrama
> Cc: N6LL at arrl.net ; SCCC Reflector
> Subject: Re: [SCCC] Would SCCC like to sponsor an alternative contest 
> to Field Day?
>
> Glad to know others have been wondering about FD this year
>
> I like the suggestions
>
> 10 years ago, when we were just starting out, we made LOTS of contacts on
> UHF/VHF.
> In recent years the lack of contacts on UHF/VHF have caused us to 
> question
> the effort vs the reward in that segment.
>
> Bryce
> K6TI
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 7:34 PM Jess Guaderrama via SCCC <
> sccc at contesting.com> wrote:
>
>> I like the idea, but whatever you come up with, please make the exchange
>> short and sweet and WITHOUT a QSO serial number. I have always hated
>> contests that require a serial number.
>>
>> 73's Jess W6LEN
>>
>>
>>     On Friday, April 24, 2020, 06:08:36 PM PDT, Paul Gordon N6LL <
>> n6ll at pacbell.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Tim,
>>
>> I've been pondering the FD issue, too.
>>
>> We, the W6KA (Pasadena) leadership, have more or less resigned ourselves
>> to the idea that it will be inappropriate for us to gather in person for
>> FD. Instead we will encourage each member to be safer-at-home making
>> valid FD exchanges using their own calls.Participation in our event will
>> NOT require following all of ARRL's rules - just enough so the contacts
>> make sense. We will encourage entries or check logs as appropriate.
>>
>> Marty's success getting ARES and ACS members to participate in the
>> recent 70 cm Sprint gives me hope thatVHF can reclaim its respect in FD.
>> [We used to get about the same scores from the cw station, the ssb
>> station, and the vhf station.]
>>
>> I hope attractive advertising, frivolous prizes, and peer pressure will
>> encourage participation.
>>
>> Perhaps the club will accept my proposal to call our event HAPPY Field
>> Day, the *H*ouse *A*rrest *P*arty, *P*ortable in the *Y*ard.
>>
>> Also just thinking out loud here, but looking to be a little silly.
>>
>> 73
>> Paul
>>
>> On 4/23/2020 10:24 PM, Tim Goeppinger wrote:
>> > Seems to me that Field Day is going to be a big flop this year, 
>> with the
>> ARRL not bending on the rules.    How can we turn around this 
>> situation so
>> that some fun operating event could be done here locally, while 
>> preserving
>> the outdoor aspect of FD and the FD exchange.  How about some 
>> competition
>> between clubs?  Think of alternative scoring systems, like the 
>> percentage
>> of a club roster that gets on the air to make contacts?  Some kind of 
>> event
>> to get new Technicians to take their handhelds to the nearest hilltop to
>> make some simplex QSOs?
>> >
>> > Just thinking out loud here.
>> >
>> > 73,
>> >
>> > Tim N6GP
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