[UK-CONTEST] Uk activity on VHF

Thu Apr 8 08:45:18 PDT 2010

 From the general rules: rule 4J says this:

     "Any band may be used for setting up contacts or talk back in 
connection with antenna alignment signals and confirmation that signals 
are audible."

How about setting up a SSB net on 80m should do the job and is within 
the rules. All you have to do is give your locator and ask them to beam 
towards you. Get a net controller, who is not entering the contest.

73 David G3YYD

On 08/04/2010 15:26, Stewart GM4AFF wrote:
> I agree (for the record).
>
> Stewart
> GM4AFF
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Andy Swiffin
> Sent: 08 April 2010 13:51
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Uk activity on VHF
>
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>>>> On 07/04/2010 at 23:38, in message<2f8bf.1710d9fd.38ee634b at aol.com>,
>>>>          
> <Regwoolley at aol.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> I am just as hacked off about some of the rules but I just
>> get on with it!
>>      
> Why?
>
> Why should we have to put up with some rules that "As Far As I Can See" a
> _lot_ of people disagree with?
>
> > From the discussions on here it seems to me that quite a few people have
> expressed discontent with rules such as the ban on on4kst and the M2
> multiplier in _UK_ contests.
>
> Why should we just have to "get on with it".   OK, if it was UK Law we were
> talking about then little me isn't going to have a big impact.   But these
> are just rules created by a rather small group of people  there to "serve"
> another not all that large group of people.    The committee has chosen to
> be there to serve the needs of the members,  if the members are unhappy with
> what the committee has done I don't see why I should just put up with it.
>
> Where is the accountability?
>
>    
>>>> On 08/04/2010 at 11:48 Paul_group<paul_group at greenrover.demon.co.uk>
>>>>          
> wrote:
>
>    
>> The die-hard vhf dx men will probably still come on from IO86 and IO70
>> etc and be happy to work some DX whatever the situation but in order to
>> encourage more activity the new blood has to actually be able to hear
>> someone to talk to and make a few QSO's to start with.
>>      
> Well I guess that has to be either me or Stewart (can't speak for 70)  and I
> wouldn't be too sure about that.   It's nice to  have the monthly hook up
> with the same old calls, and all the way down to the two in IO80, but I
> can't see me doing it much longer.
>
>    
>> one contributor here has stated that in
>> the same time frame he can work more stations random MS from his GM
>> location than he can during a UKAC.
>>      
> Yep, that was me too.
>
>    
>> The fixed station sweeper category looked like it might create an
>> interesting contest within a contest,
>> ... only if I want to enter, I cant
>> call CQ! so imagine how exciting it would be to work on just 70cm and
>> 23cm with narrow beams when you live in the extremities.
>>
>> IMO VHFCC got that one badly wrong. I accept that on 2m its a different
>> story but 70 and 23 it is a different case. I never got an answer to
>> this point of view when I asked VHFCC directly but there was a cryptic
>> comment in Radcom that suggested "I didn't get it" which was a little
>> disappointing.
>>      
>
> ahh another rule that didn't seem to align with the members wishes, again
> quite a few people I know expressed the same opinion.   Perhaps its the
> distance to the activity but IMHO it is nearly the same on 2M as for UHF
> from up here.   Not being able to call CQ meant that I couldn't hook up with
> loads of the small portables who were largely S&P, kind of defeats the
> object?.
>
>
>    
>>> No. I said it was an England Activity Contest in all but name.
>>> Just look at the current 227 cumulated 2m UKAC entries for Jan, Feb,
>>>        
> March.
>
>    
>>> England:217
>>> Scotland:5
>>>        
>    
>> As for an English contest as the vast majority of the population live in
>>      
> England (say's he a Welshman in G).
>    
>> Then it goes without saying the entrants will be on the main in England!
>>      
>
> Population
> England : Scotland
> 60M : 5M
>
> 12:1
>
> So, there should be 19 entrants from Scotland.
>
>    
>>>> On 08/04/2010 at 01:50,  Ray James<gm4cxm at yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
>>>>          
>    
>> Ditch the ban and M2!
>>      
> hear hear.
>
>
> Andy
> gm8oeg
>
>
>
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