[VHFcontesting] Too Many Contests?

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:29:38PM -0400, Ev Tupis wrote:
> Kenneth E. Harker wrote:
> >The ARRL June VHF QSO Party is _the_ premier VHF+ competition of the year
> >for North America.  It sees _by far_ the most operations of any VHF+ 
> >competition all year long.
> 
> From: http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/
> 
> June VHF QSO Party 2003: 818 Logs Submitted
> June VHF QSO Party 2004: 620 Logs Submitted
>                          ---
>                          719 Average over the past two years
> 
> January VHF Sweepstakes 2003: 798 Logs Submitted
> January VHF Sweepstakes 2004: 834 Logs Submitted
>                               ---
>                               816 Average over the past two years
> 
> The January VHF Sweepstakes wins..."by far".

Yeah - OK.  The January contest gets the most log submissions.  I think
this has been historically so because of club competition.  But for
those _not_ living in W1/W2, June has a lot more activity, as shown 
by maps of where those who submit logs are located:

http://www.wm5r.org/maps/2003janvhf/
http://www.wm5r.org/maps/2003junvhf/
http://www.wm5r.org/maps/2003sepvhf/

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Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
kenharker at kenharker.com
http://www.kenharker.com/