Greene Valley is one of the best operating locations in the Chicago
area. I was up there for the Spring microwave sprint. Too bad they are
only open from 11 am to 6 pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
:-(
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Bruce Tobias <wb9woz@comcast.net> wrote:
> My thanks to everyone who replied via the list and also privately. I'll
> address some you thoughts below.
>
> I'm not new to contesting. I've done vhf ssb contests for several years.
> Before we downsized to a 1st floor condo type unit, I had a roof full of
> G0KSC yagis for 6-70cm. And 3 HF antennas.
>
> I'm doing FM only because I see it as a challenge. When I did VHF/UHF
> sideband, I always had FM running to pick up the extra Q's, so people are
> out there. When I ran sideband, 100 watts on 2m, 35 watts on uhf, and 25
> watts on 220. I can't compete with too many SOLP stations.
>
> Guys say I need to be on a mountain to be competitive. The only mountains we
> have around here are made from trash. Greene Valley is about one mile from
> me. Elevation about 900 ft. Most of you might think that's not much, but for
> us, its pretty high.
>
> I don't really want to rove. We have several rovers in the Chicago area, and
> they do a very good job.
>
> I do talk up contests on nets and also my local club. Seems most people
> don't have simplex freqs programmed in their memory channels. If its not a
> repeater, they wont even try. Their loss. 146.52 simplex is pretty dead in
> the Chicago area. Before it was allowed, 146.55 was the go to simplex
> channel for contests. Almost zero FM activity on anything else. 146.52,
> 146.55, 223.50 and 446.00 are pretty much it around here. I'm very polite,
> I'll move anywhere someone wants to go.
>
> Last September I played on the trash hill for less then 3 hours on Sunday.
> To my surprise I placed 6th nationally. Granted there were only 18 entries,
> but still much better then I expected. People wanted a FM only category, so
> I'm going to try it.
>
> Like I said at the beginning. I look at it as a challenge. I'm not up for
> mountain topping running only 10 watts like Zach. He found his niche, maybe
> FM is mine.
>
> Thanks for letting me ramble
>
> Bruce
> wb9woz
> EN51xr
>
>
>
>
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