[VHFcontesting] Two Bands

[Paul Kiesel]

You guys kill me. Nobody screwed up. And CQ kept it
real simple. Good for them.

K7CW

--- Dave Agsten <w4txs at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Maybe both CQ and the ARRL should keep it
> simple.....any VHF band, any UHF band, any band
> above UHF or change the names of their contests
> 
> John Geiger <aa5jg at lcisp.com> wrote:  No, CQ screwed
> up also, because 222mhz is not just a US ham band.
> It is a
> ham band in all of region 2 (North and South
> America) so it is an
> international band. There are also countries that
> don't have 6m as a ham
> and (Kuwait for one) so maybe that should be
> excluded from an international
> contest.
> 
> 73s John AA5JG
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Agsten" 
> To: 
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 12:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Two Bands
> 
> 
> > I asked the folks at CQ why 222Mhz was excluded
> from their VHF contest.
> The response was that since it is a Worldwide
> Contest and 222 is only an
> amateur band in the U.S. they couldn't include it.
> I'm assuming the same
> reasoning holds for 70Mhz.
> >
> > As far as 432 goes, it's not a VHF frequency so
> it's obviously excluded
> from the CQ VHF contest. The irony here is that 432
> and above are included
> in the ARRL "VHF" contest and really shouldn't be if
> it's really a VHF
> contest. VHF frequencies go to 300Mhz. And then of
> course, 222Mhz, a VHF
> freq. is included in the ARRL's UHF contest. Does it
> seem like Newington has
> things all screwed up? Certainly more so than CQ.
> >
> > I'll be on from FM18ch on 6 and 2 meters for the
> VHF contest. I will not
> be roving for this one and probably not for future
> contests until some rules
> are changed. ( So that means, most likely, that the
> N8AG rover is QRT)
> >
> > GL to all es 73,
> > Dave N8AG ( ex W4TXS/R es N8AG/R)
> >
> >
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