[VHFcontesting] VHF contest tips, tricks, and techniques

[Marshall-K5QE]

Hello everyone....I taught a class on VHF Contesting at HamCom this year 
in Dallas.  I told them that if you were ever hopelessly lost in the 
wilderness, just get out your rig and start calling on 
50.110MHz.....within 2 minutes several "Band Police" would show up and 
tell you to get off the calling frequency.....and you would be saved.  
SOS will not do it, but calling on one of the calling frequencies will......

We really don't need the "Band Police"....what we need is more contacts.....

73 Marshall K5QE



On 7/23/2014 1:12 PM, beamar via VHFcontesting wrote:
> On Two Meters, I will listen to 144.200 for a few minutes. If I do not 
> hear anyone, I will call CQ. I will then move the antenna 30 degrees 
> and call again. I do this until I make a contact. If I stir up some 
> activity, I move up or down 10. This seems to work. But, it also 
> irritates a few people. I have been told to get off the call 
> frequency, a few times. I thought this is what the call frequency was 
> for?
> -- 
> Buddy WB4OMG