[VHFcontesting] The January Contest

[Tom Carney]

If the contest started Friday afternoon, it's unlikely I would ever go out
on Friday.  I'm a single op rover and thus have to put up/take down
antennas without help.  This is not something I can do in the dark.  If the
contest started at 0000, I would only have about 90 minutes before sunset.
Just not worth the trouble to go out roving.

On the west coast, fb games frequently start at 10AM.  Add the hour it
would take to take the antennas down and drive home and I have to stop at
9AM.  Again probably not worth the trouble to go roving.

This year the first of the two play-off games didn't start until 1PM.  If
the NFL always schedules the first play-off game at 1PM, it would just
knock off late Sun afternoon but I don't rove then due to darkness.

73,

Tom K6EU aka K6EU/r