[VHFcontesting] ARRL Sept VHF results

[Ron Klimas WZ1V]

ARRL September VHF Contest - 2019

Call: WZ1V
Operator(s): WZ1V
Station: WZ1V
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: FN31RH
Operating Time (hrs): 23

Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 155 45
2: 125 30
222: 48 22
432: 58 22
903: 
1.2: 26 13
2.3: 
3.4: 
5.7: 
10G: 
24G: 
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Total: 412 132 Total Score = 75,240

Club: North East Weak Signal Group

Comments:
Had some nice contacts on all the bands really. Worked 
WS3C FM19 and W1GHZ FN34 for new ones on 1296. 
No 6M Es observed here, but there was a narrow 
tropo duct to the SW all Sunday morning. Both 
W4IY and AA4ZZ were 59 up through 432. 
Unfortunately the digital modes taking hold has 
reduced the fun factor in VHF contesting for me. 
Yes I do use it and it does make contacts that 
might be difficult if not impossible without it. 
But it has drastically reduced the potential for 
finding contacts on the bands above 2M. 
Too many people with good equipment on higher 
bands are getting stuck on 50.313 and 144.174 
for too long making themselves unavailable to 
anyone wishing to work them up through the bands. 
I'm guilty of falling into this trap myself, 
it's addictive, and hard to yank yourself out. 
Some say use the Chat Page more, but that has created 
another problem with so much greater use it scrolls 
by far too fast to be useful, at least for me. 
It's becoming a contest of who can type and click 
on their computers the fastest, thereby taking away 
from the original intent of being a proving ground 
to improve our actual operating skills and ability 
to discern the weakest signals ourselves without 
depending on a computer to do it for us. 
Sadly we're allowing ourselves to be replaced. 
-73 Ron WZ1V

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