[VHFcontesting] 144.200

[GeorgeF.]

>
>I would love to introduce some of these folks on .52 FM to contesting 
>during a contesting weekend when there's actually some activity. It's 
>amazing how many people in my town are active on .52.  When there was a 
>discussion about .52 not being active in the area, a lot of folks switched 
>to simplex. The introduction of a few echolink simplex nodes helped quite 
>a bit, too. On any given night (except during a net time) I hear more 
>activity on simplex FM, especially .52, than on all of the 34 repeaters in 
>my area together.
>
>73,
>--Alex KR1ST
>http://www.kr1st.com


George W1LVL is right, if we don't use .200 then come contest time we'll 
have very few if any log entries.

Alex, we have the same problem here in EL99 with FM repeater activity, 
there is NONE!  2mtr SSB actually is more active on a regular bases then 
2mtr FM.  That is counting about 6 FM repeater on 2 mtrs.   Its gotten so 
bad on FM that I bought an FT857 to put in the mobile so I could work 2 SSB 
while driving around town.

George - KI4FIA