[VHFcontesting] Re: Fw: VHFcontesting, Get A Grip!

[John Geiger]

It also might make it easier if we eliminate the ban
on 146.52 simplex.  Why is that still in place?  It
probably had merit when we were all using crystal
rigs, and that was the only simplex frequency that
most people had.  Today, there is virtually no one on
.52 on a consistent basis.  Yet that is the frequency
that most people think of when they think of simplex. 
Eliminating the ban on .52 might encourage more
activity, or at least a few additional hams might
stumble across the contest activity there and become
interested.

BTW, what makes 146.52 any more special or important
than 446.0, 223.5, or 52.525, that it deserves a
contest free status, and the others don't?

73s John NE0P
--- KA0TP at aol.com wrote:
> I suppose a GPS will be a requirement for a Rover if
> using the 6 digit grids.
> At this time, I can get by with a Forest Service map
> but....
> 
> Getting more people on the air is the real key...
> 
> For this Contest, please promote 146.580 FM simplex
> for all those Hams, 
> especially New ones, on the repeaters who don't have
> All-mode rigs...
>  Yes there is life beyond the repeaters... Try
> Simplex...
> 
> I let all those that I talk to on the repeater know
> that I listen on the 
> quarter Hour on the FM simplex (if able to...)
> 52.525 FM,  146.580 FM, 223.5 FM, 446.000 FM
>  On the Quarter hour :00, :15, :30, :45
> 
> As well as on or above the usual USB calling freqs
> per the band plan.
> 50.125 USB, 144.200 USB, 432.100 USB
> 
> 
> In a message dated 9/4/02 8:32:00 PM Pacific
> Daylight Time, n9dg at yahoo.com 
> writes:
> << ....The added burden for computing your score is
> minimal since
>  the heavy-duty calculating work will only need to
> be
>  done during the ARRL log checking process. So those
>  without computers will be only be missing out on
> the
>  luxury of knowing their final score quickly.
>   Duane
>  N9DG
>   >>


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