[VHFcontesting] Question to the group

[John Geiger]

I would be thrilled to hear anyone on any band above 432 in my area. I
would be thrilled to hear QRM on 432 here.


73 John AF5CC
EM04to

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Paul Kiesel via VHFcontesting <
vhfcontesting at contesting.com> wrote:

> Hi Terry,
> I guess the majority responders to your question already have invested
> into buying the equipment necessary to operate on the higher bands. And I
> also guess that those who haven't made such an investment may have already
> decided they wouldn't do so, anyway.
>
> Here is my thought on the matter. If it is possible for a station to have
> more QSOs and get more multipliers while working a single band in a
> contest, the scoring regime needs to be revisited if a station using more
> than one band can achieve a higher score than the single band station while
> gathering fewer QSOs and fewer multipliers (total) than he.
> 73, Paul K7CW
>
>
>
>       From: "w8zn54 at verizon.net" <w8zn54 at verizon.net>
>  To: vhfcontesting at contesting.com
>  Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 5:53 PM
>  Subject: [VHFcontesting] Question to the group
>
> Does anyone feel that giving extra points for 2.3G and up has out lived
> it's usefulness? You can order a complete high quality transverter system
> from DEMI or DB6NT and it's easier to work folks on 10GHz in the 10GHz
> contest than trying to catch them on 2m!!! It just seems that adding
> another band which automatically gives you more Q's and grids is enough of
> a bonus. When getting on the microwaves required an engineering degree and
> $20K in test equipment, I would agree but now it just seems a relic.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Terry Price
> W8ZN - ex K8ISK/WD8ISK
> 1.8 MHZ - 47 GHz - FM18dv
> Member of the K8GP Contest Group
> FM19bb
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