Herb,
You are Dead Nuts on the money.
The K2LIM team has even sponsored a FM contest within all the ARRL VHF/UHF
contests for the past 5 years to try to stir-up activity, to no avail. Just
can't get the FM crowd to understand that you don't need a repeater to
communicate with one-another.
Now that the (behind the 8 ball) ARRL has decided to put in a FM only
category, we pulled our FM contest from our website. Let the contest sponsor
push it. (they won't).
And, what's with all the concern about what 2M FM simplex frequency to use,
Have you got a brain? If so, use it. What ever 2M simplex frequency is
popular in your area will work just fine. Just remember to pick up the mic
and call CQ Contest once in a while - pretty simple.
Ken
KA2LIM
-----Original Message-----
From: VHFcontesting [mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf
Of Herb Krumich
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 10:11 AM
To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
Subject: [VHFcontesting] FM freq's
Not to be a pain in the neck, but
There is more activity talking about FM contesting than the activity in the
contest itself.
We can't get local repeater guys in our club, to stop by and give out
points, even when they know we are on the air.
There are operators in our club which are few, and there are others that
join to eat the donuts.
I always thought 146.55 was the standard go to freq.
Keep it simple guys. It's later than you think.
Herb at WA2FGK
BTW K1TEO who wins every contest, has no FM
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