[VHFcontesting] [VHF] Re: Increasing VHF activity in contestsand otherwise.

[John Geiger]

The CQVHF contest used to be a couple of weeks earlier, when we usually had 
even better conditions, but at that time it conflicted with the IARU contest 
on HF.

Does anyone else remember when the CQVHF contest used to use prefixes for 
multipliers, or when the IARU contest allowed for VHF/UHF operation?

I wouldn't mind it if the CQ committee moved the contest a couple of weeks 
earlier, like the first weekend in July, as that is usually when the best Es 
is.

73 John AF5CC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Kiesel" <k7cw at yahoo.com>
To: "Jack W6NF" <vhfplus at gmail.com>; "David Vari" <n2rhl at yahoo.com>
Cc: <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>; <VHF at w6yx.stanford.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] [VHF] Re: Increasing VHF activity in 
contestsand otherwise.


The month of July is known for producing some extremely exciting E openings. 
I think the folks at CQ took this into consideration when choosing the dates 
for their VHF contest. But, there can be some pretty deep nulls then, too. I 
like the dates they chose for the contest. I also like the format. 
Unfortunately, sporadic E is sporadic and we sometimes don't have the 
propagation we'd like.

73, Paul K7CW



________________________________
 From: Jack W6NF <vhfplus at gmail.com>
To: David Vari <n2rhl at yahoo.com>
Cc: "vhfcontesting at contesting.com" <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>; 
"VHF at w6yx.stanford.edu" <VHF at w6yx.stanford.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 6:18 AM
Subject: [VHF] Re: [VHFcontesting] Increasing VHF activity in contests and 
otherwise.


On 9/23/2013 7:40 AM, David Vari wrote:
> I for one consider the CQ WW VHF contest the deadest of vhf contests as 
> far as activity goes. But i take it being school is out and vacations with 
> the family i can understand that.
>
>
>
> Dave N2RHL
> Charter member of the
> Niagara Frontier RadioSport
> contest club.
No, the September VHF Contest is the "deadest" based on logs entered.

In 2011 the CQ contest had 744 logs entered, the September contest 434.
In 2012 the CQ contest had 732 logs and the September VHF has 454.
That's a pretty dramatic difference.

73,



-- 
Jack, W6NF/VE4
Shelley, K7MKL/VE4
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