[UK-CONTEST] 4m/6m contest in Es season

[John Wilson]

I prefer Peter's interpretation - it adds to the challange, there's no 
doubt that running both bands simultaneously, requires a bit more effort 
but nothing like that required for a signifcant VHF NFD entry.  There's 
also the other issue of VHF NFD being predominantly a microwave contest 
in europe so their contest groups are already stretched thin up to 76 
GHz so I think this is why VHF NFD always seems a bit thin on european 
activity on 4 and 6m.

John G3UUT

Peter Bowyer wrote:
> 2009/4/19 Andy GD0TEP <andy at gd0tep.com>:
>   
>> Hi John & Group,
>>
>> In answer to one of your points and as you've requested readers 'thoughts'
>>
>>     
>>> 3. The 6m Trophy contest, although a popular and well supported contest
>>> (by VHF standards), is not so busy that  groups could not put a bit of
>>>       
>> resource
>>     
>>> into the 4m section.
>>>       
>> It's the 'not so busy' point I'm trying to answer here.
>>
>> With regards to the 6m Trophy. If the band is open with SpE, then we often
>> see QSO rates of 100+ per hour, and with full exchange required I think
>> that's a pretty busy band, and high QSO rates often leads to reasonable
>> results, so I guess it would be a non starter for us to check 4m during this
>> period to see if I could work one or two there.
>>     
>
> ... which means some tactical decisions would be needed as to which
> band to be on at a given time - that's an essential part of SOAB and
> M/S HF contesting which is lacking in (most) VHF contests - which on
> its own would pose an interesting challenge. Putting on separate
> sessions for 6m and 4m, as has been the case in VHF NFD for the past
> few years, removes this element of tactics in favour of flogging each
> band to death.
>
> Peter G4MJS
>
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