[VHFcontesting] EME follow up

[frank bechdoldt]

As I learned from researching this over the last week, The chances of randomly finding another station you can not hear with your ear on a vfo are insanely small.
 
>From my experience, I can make random meteor contacts when I hear with my ear on a vfo.  For each one of those there is 10 more contacts tat are made 20 db below the noise floor. That being I might hear a guy on a big ping and zero in on him to complete.
 
Really the true assistance is the Joe Taylor software, not a web page.
 
The web page is virtually the same thing as many in the EME community and the general contest community already does.  That is pre set schedules via phone, email or snail mail correspondence.  The removal of the assisted class only means the stations have to be more prepared by corresponding to other known stations well in advance.
 
At least by participating in the assisted class, one is admitting to pre arranged QSOs via real time skeds.  Without it some of the opps are now posting big scores via phone skeds or mail skeds for "assistance" and are using WSJT for "Assistance".  
 
The solution seems simple.
 
The elite of the elite:  Class 1 Unassisted (no skeds in any form) CW or SSB.
 
The Next tier down: Class 2 Partially Assisted (digital modes, no skeds in any form)
 
The next tier down: Class 3 Assisted (Digital modes and skeds in any form)
 
Otherwise some of the elite out there are just choosing some player used “steroids” while ignoring others to compete in the exclusive class they have now formed.
 
 
> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:44:26 -0700
> From: aa5jg at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] lack of logs sure to come
> To: vhfcontesting at contesting.com; k3uhf at hotmail.com
> 
> No, you can still enter in the unassisted class.
> 
> 73s John AA5JG
> 
> --- On Fri, 8/14/09, frank bechdoldt <k3uhf at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: frank bechdoldt <k3uhf at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: [VHFcontesting] lack of logs sure to come
> > To: vhfcontesting at contesting.com
> > Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 2:15 PM
> > 
> > jim wrote:
> > 
> > you might see is an announcement from the ARRL something
> > like
> > this: "The PSC has decided to discontinue the EME contest
> > due to a lack of
> > interest/participation."
> > 
> > It already has for those who were in the assistance class.
> > The logs will not be there becuase those people are
> > officially excluded when the goals of the VUAC and PSC was
> > to find ways to get more participation in all of the VHF
> > plus contests.  
> > 
> > Again backwards results from the ARRL.
> > 
> > k3uhf
> > 
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