[VHFcontesting] VUAC proposal to ARRL

[Steve Clifford]

Excellent, excellent excellent!  My only suggestion is a minor one and that
is with regard to the bands available to Limited Rovers.  The Kenwood TS2000
can be had with 902 capability so its  an all-in-one unit.  It would make
for an economical way for a person to get into 4 VHF bands quickly and
easily.  It removes the need to get a 222 transverter.  That's why I thought
giving Limited 50, 144 and 432 plus one more of their choice would be
better.

Other than that, I like it a LOT.  Even that one minor detail doesn't bother
me anyway.  Personally, I use the lower 4 anyway so I have no beef with it.
I'm just thinking of others getting started.

Thanks for posting that.  I am very encouraged by this.

Steve
K4GUN/R

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM, <jcplatt1 at mmm.com> wrote:

> Hello fellow VHF contesters.  As you may know, I am the Dakota Division
> VUAC representative.  A full list of who is your ARRL Division VUAC
> representative can be found at http://www.arrl.org/contests/vuac.html .
> Just prior to the ARRL's January board meeting, your VUAC made the
> following proposed VHF contest rule changes to the ARRL's Program &
> Services Committee (PSC) whom we report to.
>
> Rover rules.  Change the General VHF Contest Rules to read:
> 2.3.8.  Any rover making more than 30 contacts with any one other rover, or
> more than 50% of its total contacts with other rovers, will be placed in
> the Unlimited Rover category.
> 2.4.  Limited Rover.  Same as the "Rover" class above but participates with
> no more than the four lowest frequency bands that are defined for any given
> contest.   Their output power is restricted to the same power levels as
> those defined for the Single Operator Low Power category (2.1.1)
>
> Minimum distance rule.  Modify the General VHF Contest Rules to read:
> 1.10   While no minimum distance is specified for contacts, equipment shall
> have been demonstrated to be capable of communications at a range of at
> least 1 km.
>
> Add club competition to the August UHF Contest.   Modify General Contest
> rule 8.1.9 by adding the following section:
> 8.1.9  (August) UHF Contest.
>
> In addition to these three proposals, there was a fourth proposal that
> dealt with proposed rule changes to the EME contest .... I didn't not copy
> those here as most of the discussion has been around the rover rules.   For
> the Rover category you can see that we tightened the number of
> rover-to-rover contacts without being overly prescriptive and while still
> allowing for this type of fun contesting as a Unlimited Rover.  We also
> refocused the Limited Rover concept on "Joe- 706" by stating its the lowest
> four bands, not any four bands you want.    The minimum distance rule was
> slight strengthened to insure that equipment can indeed work at least 1 km.
> I think there are 16 VUAC members, so as you would guess we have wide
> ranging discussions before this compromised was reached.   Its my
> understand that the VUAC proposal was passed on to the ARRL's Award
> Committee which is a part of the process that all of this takes.
>
> I may have stuck my neck out a bit as presenting work in progress .....
> these proposed changes may or may not take affect .... but based on the
> recent discussion here it seemed reasonable to keep fellow VHF contesters
> informed.
>
> 73, Jon
> W0ZQ
>
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