[VHFcontesting] This weekend VHF contest

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Bruce,


You are very very close to the grid corner of EN51-EN52-EN62-EN61, just 18 miles away.  Very noisy in the city but you have a huge population center.  4 Bands, 4 easy grids is 16 multi's and with a lot of seat time you will place in the top 5 with around a hundred Q's.  I bet you can pull 200 Q's and maybe even win.


The big challenge is always simplex turn out.  Contact as many local clubs as you can, tell them what freq's you will be using (national calling freqs are legal now, just be polite and QSY as needed).  It also doesnt hurt to get on some local nets between now and Saturday and ask for people to run simplex for a few hours on the weekend.  You will be surprised at the great turn out you get. 


I wont be working FM this June in any serious way.  I will have my mountain topping rig with me but I will be supporting W4IY multi SSB station on my favorite mountain top (they would melt my raido if I got on the air near them),  II sure wish I could reach you but your way beyond my 250 mile FM range being on the VA-WVA border.


Just to give you something to shoot for, I pasted a table of scores from January.  Your strength is the grid corner and population,  While altitude is king, the location is just a important IF you have the bands to drive up the multi's.  You have a great location being so near a grid corner.  Back that up with all four bands and a lot of coffee (BIC) for lots of Q's and you will do quite well.  If you dont have all 4 FM band BORROW the gear and ALWAYS ask you 2M contacts what other bands they have.  Once you get noticed Hams will dust off old rigs (220 & 6M) and call friends to make contacts.  If you have a couple buddies with good mobile rigs have them circle the grid corner and call you, thats 16 points per mobile if they have all 4 bands.


Its tough to get the SSB guys to come onto FM.  You wont hear them on Saturday but the will start cropping up late on Sunday afternoon as they realize they have maxed out on grids (especially if the tropo is bad) and start working hard for every additional Q.  You may even get a couple rovers working FM circling the grid corner late Sunday as they work their way home.  Saturday is all about the FM'ers and racking up the Q's. Late Sunday is fun as the big stations start to get "desperate" for every Q.


73
John
KM4KMU



1
W2EV
6,292
202
22
FM
WNY
1
Rochester VHF Group
 

2
KM4KMU
6,231
154
31
FM
VA
1
 
 

3
W6KKO
2,096
90
16
FM
SJV
1
Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers
 

4
N2HJD
2,086
104
14
FM
WNY
1
Rochester Radio Repeater Assn
 

5
N2SCJ
1,944
154
9
FM
SNJ
1
South Jersey Radio Assn
 

6
KO5OK
660
39
12
FM
OK
1
DFW Contest Group
NL7CO

7
N9VM
576
43
9
FM
SJV
1
 
N1VM

8
KC9PCP
567
40
9
FM
IL
1
 
 

9
AF5Q
470
33
10
FM
OK
1
 
 

10
WB9WOZ
301
28
7
FM
IL
1
Dupage ARC
 







-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Tobias <wb9woz at comcast.net>
To: vhfcontesting <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, Jun 5, 2017 9:39 pm
Subject: [VHFcontesting] This weekend VHF contest

Please don't forget about us FM only stations.

Bruce
wb9woz
EN51
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