[VHFcontesting] Contest rules etc.

[Mike (KA5CVH) Urich]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Duane - N9DG <n9dg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The "old school" ops usually came up through the Novice ranks and then settled into VHF weak signal because it was challenging, the "challenging" aspects of it being the "fun", "easy" was(is) not fun for them. Building their Novice stations were fun challenges. Today all too often the task of putting a first station together is viewed as "burden" by so many of the new ops. This is really unfortunate.

Mike adds,

IMHO ...

Back in the late 70's a large number of new hams, at least those in
the Houston area were, 11 meter SSB enthusiasts that got sick and
tired of putting up with the linear lipped 10-4 good buddies and went
and tested for their ticket and moved away from 11 meters altogether.
Both 50 & 144 MHz SSB produced the results necessary to keep their
interests alive.

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