I have always looked upon them as an avenue for experimentation. You really
can't buy gear for the millimeter-wave bands. You can buy pieces but you
still have to put them together yourself and you have to know what you're
doing.
Fortunately Joel W5ZN and Sean KX9X are both VHF weak-signal guys and
contesters. But they are only two voices in the ARRL and I think Joel might
be about done with his term as President of ARRL (not sure about this).
73, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:08 AM, John Geiger <aa5jg@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Couldn't agree more. This has been one of my criticisms of the ARRL in the
> past few years. They treat the VHF bands as some sort of purgetory that you
> are sent to until you upgrade to general and get on HF (although now you can
> do plenty of HF with the Tech license). They never really promoted the
> VHF/UHF bands to the newbie as the great bands that they are. Very little
> mention of weak signal work at all, or satellite use.
> Their focus is always "VHF is for FM and APRS and if you want to do more
> than that, you need to upgrade."
>
> 73s JOhn AA5JG
>
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