[VHFcontesting] Contesting on 222 anytime

[John Santillo]

Personally 222MHz is way under rated and under utilized.  

 

222 is only 3.75dB worse in Free Space Pathloss than 2M.  In addition the
background noise floor is much higher on 2M than 222 so all things
considered equal (antenna gain, power, system noise etc.), these bands are
very similar.  

 

During this past September VHF Contest the only reason why we had more
contacts on 2M than 222 was due to popularity, not propagation.  

 

 

73,

 

John

N2HMM