One of the nice things about the June VHF Contest is the sporadic E on 6M.
(And, one of the nice things about the september contest is the lack of Es,
which encourages other (many weaker) signal modes to be utilized, like
troposcatter, tropo ducting, meteor scatter, and the weak signal digital
modes.)
Funny, it seems in my experience, that the Es is even better the week after,
which is field day.
AND, interestingly, the peak of the multi hop (including to Europe) is about
a week later, roughtly July 7th +/-.
And, the 2M and up Es tends to be in the same period - peaking (in
probability) around the 7th. This year the BIG one was on the 6th.
So, how about moving the "June" VHF contest to the first weekend in July, or
the second. I relize that there is this problem of where the 4th of July
holiday lands.
Alternatively, move the June VHF Contest to Field Day weekend, and move
(gasp) field day somewhere else in the calendar.
73 all, John, K1AE
PS: Please feel free to forward this to other VHF lists.
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-----Original Message-----
From: vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Ed Steeble
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 8:41 PM
To: vhfcontesting at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Re: [VHFcontesting] Too Many Contests?
But many treat the June VHF contest as another FD-like activity and groups
go off to set up on a mountain top. In January it is too cold, bad weather,
etc. So rather than compare logs, compare the total number of operators
participating.
And I agree that FD is to close to the June VHF contest so I have cut (way)
back on my FD participation.
But keep throwing out ideas to improve participation.
73, Ed
K3IXD
EM93va
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:29:38 -0400
From: Ev Tupis <w2ev at arrl.net>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Too Many Contests?
To: VHFContesting eMail Remailer <VHFcontesting at contesting.com>
Message-ID: <40FEE042.4010007 at arrl.net>
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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
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719 Average over the past two years
January VHF Sweepstakes 2003: 798 Logs Submitted
January VHF Sweepstakes 2004: 834 Logs Submitted
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816 Average over the past two years
The January VHF Sweepstakes wins..."by far".
Ev, W2EV
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