[VHFcontesting] A suggestion for Limiting MultiOps [was: Asuggestion for ERP-based Entry Classes]

[Dave Wendling]

I'm in your corner Kenneth!

Dave Wendling
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"Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker at cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
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>On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:22:29PM -0500, Ev Tupis (W2EV) wrote:
>> "Hoffman, Mark" wrote:
>> > 
>> > I believe that was his entire point. That it's EASIER to build a competitive
>> > station with fewer bands HAS taken away from the potential pool of uWave
>> > activity. If I can WIN M/L, and be a speck in the results as M/M - why
>> > bother with it?
>> 
>> And this is the wrong message to be sending when the ARRL is expending a
>> significant amount of effort in trying to protect our uWave bands.  Think about
>> this:
>> 
>> o Donate to the spectrum defense fund
>> o Create a contesting category that actually encourages you to NOT use spectrum
>
>You are not going to get everyone who shows an interest in VHF operating to
>buy microwave gear.  It's expensive, it takes a lot of time and effort to
>build a station, and a lot of time and effort to learn how to use it.  It
>has been and always will be a small niche activity.
>
>Half of the ARRL-sponsored VHF+ contesting weekends are specifically 
>designed to cater to microwave operators.  In the other half of the 
>contesting weekends, all but ONE operating category is heavily microwave-
>oriented.   And you want to get rid of that ONE category because it 
>offends your sense of VHF contesting as a pro-microwave PR stunt.
>
>In HF contesting, there are all sorts of different contests with all 
>sorts of different rules and different entry categories, offering different 
>competitive opportunities for everyone.  There is nowhere near the same 
>variety in VHF contesting, and here you want to make sure that every 
>entry category in every contest is the same and requires people to be 
>on 10 or 12 bands and live in a very small region of the country in order to 
>have a remote chance of winning.
>
>I think it is a pretty daft idea.
>
>> Both are ARRL activities, each of which works in opposition to the other.
>
>I guess we should get rid of single-band VHF Sprints - oh wait, the ARRL
>already did that.
>
>Maybe we should get rid of HF contests, too, because, you know, they aren't
>using the microwave bands, either.  And often big HF contest weekends
>attract operators who might instead be doing a VHF contest, too.  Aren't
>HF contests in opposition to the promotion of microwave spectrum usage?
>
>Truth.
>
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