[VHFcontesting] Announcements in VHF contesting and other topics.....

[George Fremin III]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 08:51:52PM -0500, Jack W6NF wrote:
> On 9/22/2013 4:02 PM, George Fremin III wrote:
> 
> >VHF is not harder than HF. 
> 
> Actually, George, for a "little pistol" in rural Nevada, VHF *is* 
> harder. Being a NV mult was generally worth 10db and, with 100 watts, we 
> could, on occasion, hold a run frequency in HF contests. A comparable 
> setup on VHF doesn't guarantee you can even *be heard* much less work 
> anyone.

I think you are confusing "hard to do" with inhenet diffrences in
propagation and normal working distance between HF and VHF.

If you lived in a place (or I did) where there are many people to work
within 100 miles of your location you could work many people with 100
watts and a dipole on 2 meters. And if the band is open with a bit of
tropo you can eaisly work hundreds of miles with great signals running
100 watts or 10 watts and a dipole.  But those contacts are not 
hard to make. 


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George Fremin III - K5TR
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