Perhaps I am a snob or a purist, but I don't particularly care for the use of
FM in contests....and truth be told I bought a dual band HT at Dayton a few
years ago and after listening to the garbage that evening, I never went back
to FM and personally have little use for it. I am also quite disappointed in
how many folks don't use, or don't understand, CW in a contest...especially
on the higher bands,
--
Jeff Embry
WI2T
FM19je
FPQRP # -696
NAQCC #25
AMSAT LM-2263
On Saturday 19 February 2005 23:39, Eric Smith wrote:
> At least in the Pacific Northwest, on 2 meters, 146.58 is
> used extensively when activity on SSB goes away... lots of
> contest traffic on 223.5 also.
> Eric
> KB7DQH
>
>
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:25:21 -0800
>
> "Tom Carney" <tomc7@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > I'm not so sure opening up the National calling freq is a
> > good idea. There
> > is a bit of activity on .52 out here (SF Bay area). The
> > risk you run is
> > that you *iss off the very people you want to give you a
> > Q. We even moved
> > off of .55 because of negative reaction to using it. Use
> > of .52 is not
> > explicitly prohibited during the Sprints. I tried
> > calling on .52 last
> > spring but got no responses.
> >
> > I've concluded that the vast majority of hams on FM
> > aren't interested in
> > contesting. As such, it's difficult to get them to give
> > you a Q. That's
> > the story out here but, I thought, there was considerable
> > FM contest
> > activity in other areas of the country?? If there is
> > some standard FM
> > contest freqs in other parts of the country, lets try
> > them.
> >
> > 73, Tom K6EU/r
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <KA2AEV@aol.com>
> > To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 3:22 PM
> > Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Drumming up FM activity for
> > contests
> >
> > > No arguement from me on opening up the National Calling
> >
> > Frequency
> >
> > > Seems as if it would definately drum up some type of
> >
> > activity
> >
> > > Activity levels even up here in NYCity are low on
> >
> > 146.52
> >
> > > 73 de Mike
> > > KA2AEV
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