[VHFcontesting] VHF contesting yesterday vs today

[Ed Kucharski]

Jim: This is precisely what I'm proposing. I must be doing a poor job of getting my idea across. All participants would enter in one of the categories below.
Legacy Category for phone or cw ONLY.
Digital Category for digital ONLY. 
Mixed Mode category for phone/cw AND digital.
The intent is to promote more phone/cw activity and by having more phone/cw contacts to again have the ability to easily QSY stations to uhf/microwaves. It would be administered and resulted very similarly to the ARRL 10m contest (phone only, cw only and mixed mode).
73,
Ed K3DNE

>     On 01/19/2021 2:36 PM Jim via VHFcontesting < vhfcontesting at contesting.com mailto:vhfcontesting at contesting.com > wrote:
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>     Rather than trying to run separate contests for digital and analog, how about combining both modes by allowing same band QSOs for both digital and analog? Those serious enough would make it a point to pick up QSOs on both modes.
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>     My other question, as one who does not do digital (at least yet), is why not bounce back and forth between the two modes? Does it really take much more than one button push on most radios to switch from VFO A on digital to VFO B on analog? Some activity, especially by the high profile serious stations, would help alert the rest of us that there actually is somebody to talk to on these normally dead bands.
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>     73 - Jim K8MR/4
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>         > >         On Jan 19, 2021, at 12:17 PM, Alan Larson < wa6azp at gmail.com mailto:wa6azp at gmail.com > wrote:
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> >         Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
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> >             > > >             Please bring back a legacy only mode contest or give the FT#-ers their own
> > >             contest and I'll be back.
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> > >         > >          
> >         Like he said!
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> >             > > >             FT# has already ruined 6m DXing and now it's ruined VHF contesting for me
> > >             too.
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> > >         > >         I can see how it would have ruined VHF DXing. It might provide signal
> >         detection
> >         in weaker conditions, but it doesn't provide the chance that you might
> >         actually talk
> >         to the operator at the other end.
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> >         These digital processing methods are better suited to a "weak signal
> >         detection" contest,
> >         held at a different time.
> >          
> >         Alan
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