[UK-CONTEST] VHF Activity

[Ken Eastty]

>
> While licence numbers are at all-time highs in the UK,

I didn't know that, but are people who haven't made the effort to obtain a
full licence likely to make the effort to enter a contest? Even those
foundation licensees that do are quite restricted on HF by the power limit
unless they have a big antenna farm.
At the same time I know many people who having obtained a (full) licence
have never been active why do they do that?

>activity is far less than in the late 1970s and early 1980s both in longer
contests and, I  > suspect, more generally. Just look at the pathetic 2m
totals in VHF NFD
> these days - QSO numbers around half of what people used to get.

The removal of the CW requirement unsurprisingly had a marked reduction on
V/UHF activity which is now much less than it was in the 70's & 80's even
though many new operators have rigs which cover VHF not many appear have the
antennas for VHF (G5RV's don't work well on 2m).

73...

Ken

G3LVP



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