[VHFcontesting] W3ZZ & Activity Level in June ARRL VHF QSO Party

[W2fca at cs.com]

I can't be sure since I don't do much FM, but during non-contest times I've heard activity on 146.55 and 146.58 between groups of people that can hear each other without repeaters. They disappear during contests to avoid being interfered with. Several times I've heard QSO's broken up by contest activity. One group moved down to the area around our local packet frequencies figuring nobody would find them.

Frank
W2FCA

"Tim  Coad" <timcoad at excite.com> wrote:
>I saw almost zero FM activity (except on 223.5) this year in CM87. 
>It gets less each year.  In the 80's and early 90's I could easily make 200 FM contacts from home (300 to 400 from a hill top) on 2 mtr FM. This year zero.