Hello to VHF Contesters.....Below is a proposal that I have forwarded to my VUAC representative for consideration. Please read the proposal and if you agree, send your comments to that effect to your
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:16:23 -0700
I haven't commented on this yet, so here goes. FWIW, I am in the West Gulf Division and try to operate at least one or two VHF contests a year (as a guest op or multiop), with a particular interest i
I'll be the first to admit that I came into VHF via the HF world, and have nothing to apologize for having done so. Unfortunately, Marshall, you don't seem to understand the HF world enough to make a
Kennith I think Marshall's proposal was for adding an assisted category not eliminating the categories we have now. operating as an assisted station. Can you clarify if I understood this correctly? Y
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:20:39 -0700
I think Marshall's concept of "assistance" is at odds with how that term is normally used in HF contesting. In HF contesting, assistance has traditional referred to the passive use of a spotting netw
Hi Kenneth....If you enjoy that kind of operating, I am wholeheartedly in favor of you continuing to operate in that way. I don't want to take anything away from the guys that like to operate in that
I agree with Ken's email. Why should there be any difference between a VHF and HF contests general rules? Using means other than the radio diminishes a contact in my eyes. While packet alerts you to
I guess many of us have a different definition of contesting. Is it hunting if the game you looking for has previously been caught and tied to a tree waiting for you to find it? I think not. Schedule
Is it fair if you have a shorter call sign than some. Is it fair if I know a rovers schedule and you don't. Is it fair if you speak faster than me. Is it fair if you have a band opening and I don't I
You forgot one Jim, Is It fair i have a cooler in the shack for cold Beer and you don't in a rover? heh heh.. just trying to lighten things up a bit before it gets nutz again.. Tony NN1D ____________
Now that one really isn't fair. Jim, AF6O _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/vhfconte
Does having a shorter call provide detailed frequency, direction, and time information about each of the other participants *from* the other participants via outside means? I think it can be argued t
I agree. In between contests I have on numerous occasions found and worked openings on the VHF bands that were *never* reported on the prop logger pages at all. So where does that leave those who wan
Duane, please try and keep up. The paragraph that I responded to *was* about fairness. Here it is again: "Would it be fair if you had the phone number of Joe in a grid square that we both needed but
I'm very confused by the path this thread has taken. Are we talking about calling CQ _/*vs.*/_ using spotting networks, reflectors etc. Here I was thinking this was about calling CQ _/*along with*//*
Didn't the comment about the "unfairness" of one op having "the phone number" of the rover in a rare grid imply that it was going to be used for presumably "scheduling" or otherwise "assist" two ops
Duane, Clearly you have a subject you want to discuss and you have me confused with somebody that wants to discuss it. You responded to a post of mine which was unrelated to your subject and you trie
To put it simply the proponents of prop loggers being allowed in VHF contest will contend that ops will do both, i.e. use the prop logger and call CQ. My contention is that will not be the case for a
I have to respectfully disagree. I think the people who are going to operate the contest are going to do so with or without "assistance" but you might just get a few more on if they sit down at their
Right now there is nothing against a single op looking at WWV reports, tropo maps or E's maps to determine if a band might he "open". What is not allowed for a single op (unassisted) is getting exter