[VHFcontesting] JUNE/JULY VHF Contest Proposal and Operating Protoco

[Bob, W3IDT]

Mike,

Thanks for your email.

>> VHF has been (in my own opinion) ruined by the FT modes.  Call me cranky.

YES. That's why I'm trying my best to do SOMETHING.
Last year's paper started some discussion...
Time to restart it.

"Contest within in a contest" is, I think, the best I can do now.

Fire up your 6m (and 2m) gear.
We point NE much of the time from WPA.

Bob, w3idt
6m at W3SO

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. Robert F. Teitel, W3IDT
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. w3idt at comcast.net
. w3idt at arrl.net
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On 6/4/2021 2:16 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
> No amount of highly complicated or convoluted (new) rules or even great
> suggestions will change human nature.
> 
> VHF has been (in my own opinion) ruined by the FT modes.  Call me cranky.
> 
>   
> 
> I used to be able to get on 6m and work DX into the USA or EU half the
> summer on CW and in good openings, SSB.
> 
>   
> 
> 95% of that has been taken away from me.  "Everyone" is on FT-8 (or
> whatever) even though many QSO's are still possible, it's a ghost town out
> there.  I have not even turned on anything here above 28MHz since Aug
> 2020.why bother?
> 
>   
> 
> I flatly refuse to have my computer work your computer, below the noise
> level in a contest (or even to get a new country-I am THAT stubborn).  The
> 148 DXCC's I have on 6m and 27 States on 2m I have made all my own,
> terrestrially and on legacy modes.
> 
>   
> 
> The only solution to make more legacy mode contest QSO's would be to give
> all the digi operators their own contest (or us, ours, to the way it used to
> be)
> 
>   
> 
> That, or a time machine.
> 
>   
> 
> Mike VE9AA, once extremely active on VHF.DX, contest, and whatnot.
> 
>   
> 
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
> 
> Keswick Ridge, NB
> 
>   
> 
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