[VHFcontesting] Idea to solve roving problem

[Zack Widup]

Yeah but VHF is not HF. I figgered you'd know that by now. In some past 
years I've only had a dozen people to work in that one. It's not worth 
going out with 10 bands in the middle of winter, taking over 2 hours to 
set up everything and then having to tear everything down, possibly in a 
blizzard or ice storm. I wouldn't bother. That is a sure way to kill a 
contest.

OTOH maybe it should just be a single band contest.  Make it 2m only. I 
could avoid a lot of frostbite setting up a single 2m beam on a hilltop 
...

73, Zack W9SZ


On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, John Geiger wrote:

> Here is one idea to fix the perceived rover problem:  Since the January VHF
> contest is technically called the VHF Sweepstakes, lets make it just like
> the November Sweepstakes.  You can only work another station once, not once
> per band, but only once.  If a rover goes to a new grid, you still can't
> work them if you have already worked them once.
>
> Guess that would solve the captive rover and grid circling problems.
>
> 73s John AA5JG
> (ex: W5TD, NE0P)
> 6M WAS #1275, 6m VUCC #1260
> 2m VUCC #615, Satellite VUCC #129
>
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