[VHFcontesting] Sept Contest/WJST etc.

[George Fremin III - K5TR]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:01:31PM -0400, DAVID C. OLEAN wrote:

>     So my question is " What does The League think of HSMS and WSJT,
> where the same general situation is taking place."  I am hearing that
> people do not even want to run SSB skeds anymore. That's fine, but will
> there be any question about these QSOs from the ARRL who just so happen,
> process all the logs?

I have also been wondering what will happen activity wise with a mode like WSJT.
It seems to me (based on description) to be much more like operating PSK31 and given 
that that mode has seen huge growth I have been wondering if more folks will 
get on WSJT than have gotten on HSMS so far.   

For my own part - I have never gotten very excited about making schedules
to make QSOs in a contest or otherwise.  Perhaps it is because of my HF 
contesting background that I find making schedules before the contest 
so distasteful.  In fact the only sked that I really find acceptable are 
ones made during the contest on one of the contest bands and on the 
contest mode(s). So as a result I have not done any HSMS so far since most
of the activity seems to be sked based. I am sure this has hurt our scores
at W5KFT some.

As far as WSJT goes - I have been planning to check it out - it sounds like it 
might be fun to get on and make some random QSOs.  If I have to use this mode 
to make a bigger score in a VHF contest or to stay among the stop scorers it really
takes some of the fun out for me.  Will I get on an duse this mode in the contest?
Maybe - will I look forward to it - not really - after all I dont like RTTY contests
for the same reasons.

I hate to sound so down - I like new modes - I was very active on packet 
in the local area very early on and had lots of keyboard to keyboard QSOs - that 
was great fun - I have even gotten on RTTY and PSK31 but I would not look forward 
to a VHF contest where I have to operate a digital mode to make half of my mult total.


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George Fremin III                 
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K5TR (ex.WB5VZL)                            -- Dave Leeson W6NL
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