[UK-CONTEST] CQ WW VHF

[Dave Lawley]

> 
> First off, well done on trying VHF contesting. Despite the moans and 
> groans expressed on this reflector they are good fun and certainly 
> require more skill than just endlessly pressing F1 F2 F3 on 20m  :-) 

Tammie

I think Paul has got his emoticons a bit mixed up. In the above he is 
using :-) to indicate that he is talking complete and utter nonsense. 
Different parts of the spectrum need different skills but there is a 
core of skill required regardless of whether it's VHF or HF, and the 
only way to acquire those skills is practice. If Paul thinks all you 
have to do on HF is to press F1 F2 F3 then that must be why he doesn't 
do very well below 30MHz.

By way of illustration, once a year on VHF FD, HF contesters G4BUO and 
G4TSH operate the 6m station at G0FBB/P. This year we made 201 QSOs with 
best DX OA4TT at a little over 10,000km. When the 6m session was over - 
which coincides with pub closing time, very bad planning that - I 
wandered into the 23cm tent. Our UHF contesters had decided there was 
nothing more to be had that night and were in their sleeping bags. So I 
sat down and made another four QSOs in the next 40 minutes, increasing 
their Saturday QSO total by over 10%

Use whatever bands are available to you to develop your contest skills 
and don't let Paul mislead you.

73, Dave G4BUO