[VHFcontesting] Shortest time to 2m VUCC

[George Fremin III]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:15:26AM -0800, John Geiger wrote:
> So here is another question brought up my your
> comment, why was 2 meter activity more in the 1980s? 

I can not agree with this based on my experiance here in Texas.  There
seem to be more folks on the band these days than in the 80's.

Maybe things are diffrent up in the Northeast where you have many more
folks to work.

Of course I do not have any sort of quantative thing to prove that and
I am not sure you can prove much by just looking at the numbers from
the contests.

The contest data is for one weekend and you do not not have any data
about what the conditions were like.

What do the QSO totals look like for all of these years?



> 
> 73s John W5TD
> 
> --- curtis roseman <croseman at usc.edu> wrote:
> 
> > VHFers:   
> > 
> > Below is a list of all the stations that have worked
> > at least 100 grids in a 
> > June or September ARRL VHF QSO Party.   Note: the
> > June contest 
> > started using grids in1985 and the September contest
> > in 1983.   
> > 
> > Grids/          Call/           Class/        
> > Section/      Contest/       Year/
> > 121	W8VP	M	OH	JUNE	85
> > 116	W9UD	M	IL	JUNE	85
> > 114	AA9D	M	IL	SEPT	92
> > 114	WS4F	M	NC	SEPT	86
> > 111	W4BFB	M	TN	SEPT	86
> > 110	W2SZ/1	M	WMA	SEPT	92
> > 110	AA9D	M	IL	JUNE	87
> > 108	N8FMD	M	WV	SEPT	92
> > 108	WD8ISK	M	OH	JUNE	85
> > 105	N8FMD	M	WV	JUNE	89
> > 103	K8GP	M	WV	SEPT	98
> > 102	WD8ISK	M	WV	SEPT	88
> > 101	K8GP	M	WV	SEPT	01
> > 
> > In addition, OK1KIM worked 107 Grids on 2 meters in
> > the 2005 CQWW 
> > VHF July Contest.   (Results of the 2006 CQ contest
> > are not out yet.)   
> > I have not checked the January VHF SS--it is
> > possible, but I think unlikely, 
> > that 100 grids have been worked  on 2 in that one.
> > 
> > Notice the domination of the late 1980s in the above
> > data.   Two meter
> > activity was more widespread then.
> > 
> > 73,   Curt Roseman k9aks 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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