[VHFcontesting] VHF sked alternative

[Zack Widup]

I ALMOST made one once.  I heard W9ZIH calling CQ on 10 GHz and called 
him.  He answered someone else and then disappeared.

I found out later that he was just running a CQ message on his keyer while 
the other station tuned for him.  He wasn't even pointed my way but got 
some sort of scatter off something.  He said if he knew I'd be calling 
he'd have listened for me, too. However, I guessed that I was probably at 
least 120 miles farther away than he was from whatever he was scattering 
off.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Jim Worsham wrote:

> All I can say is look at were you are and were we are.  If we ever made a
> random contact on a microwave band I don't remember it.  Let me clarify one
> thing though.  Like you, many times we will work someone on a lower band and
> then run the microwave bands with them.  I consider that a kind of schedule.
>
> 73
> Jim, W4KXY
>