[VHFcontesting] Re: Six Meter Contest

[George Fremin III]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:25:49PM -0800, Ward Silver wrote:

> i.e. - ARRL.  The League is tapped out when it comes to adding contests and
> that's one reason I suggested a 6-meter piggyback.  The other reason is that
> by adding 6 to an established contest, a bridge is created to contesters
> that otherwise plain wouldn't enter a 6-meter-only contest.  I'm sure there
> *would* be more activity on the lower band, but the goal is to get people
> interested in 6-meters that aren't now.  Is the idea to create a more
> exciting contest for the existing 6-meter contesters or create more 6-meter
> contesters?  I'm not sure the two are separate, but there isn't a whole lot
> of overlap.

Yep - it is a great idea.

The IARU contest (when it was a 48 hour contest) included 6 and 2 meters.

Too band those bands were ditched now that we have lots of 
guys on 6 meters.  :-)


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