[VHFcontesting] The January Contest

[Marty Woll]

I almost always start at one distant end of a path. and getting there on a Friday evening would be extremely difficult due to vehicular traffic.  Roads are usually clearest on Sunday, speeding the transit from one grid square to another and making it a good day to rove.  IMHO, trading Sunday evening for Friday evening is a bad idea.

N6VI / R
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: w8zn at comcast.net 
  To: vhfcontesting at contesting.com 
  Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:22 AM
  Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] The January Contest


  There has been a lot of comments about either changing the date or time of the January contest however I've not seen any input from the rovers.

  How much of a pain would it be for rovers if the contest started Friday night (0000z) and ended Sunday morning before the playoff games started? Is the normal rover route start close to home and end far away or vise versa? When I rove, I generally start far away and work back since the contest ends so late but ending by noonish on Sunday would allow you to start close and finish away and still get home before dinner! Plus, I like starting close so you can get sync'ed with stations you want to follow at different sites and check freq's and such but that may be just me.

  Terry Price - W8ZN  ex K8ISK
  FM18dv - 1.8MHz thru 47GHz
  K8GP - The Grid Pirates - FM19bb
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