Can you Please tell me where I can find all of the proposed rule changes? I
would like to read them.
Thanks & 73,
Steve, KB8VAO
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James Duffey <jamesduffey@comcast.net> wrote:
>If you have comments on the proposed rules changes for VHF/UHF contests, they
>are due December 15 to the committee at < vhf-input@arrl.org >.
>
>I personally am not going to campaign here for any of the rules changes,
>except for the one allowing single op stations to have multiple signals on
>different bands at the same time without being in the multi category. I think
>that this will increase activity as it will increase signals on the air, so
>someone who tunes to the bands during a contest is more likely to hear
>activity. This should also help with the problem of people ignoring the higher
>bands when 6M is open by encouraging ops to use SO2R techniques. If 6M is
>open, the single op can still CQ on two at the same time, and pickup stations
>calling there. I don’t see any down side to this proposed change, and I
>encourage you to comment favorably on this proposed rules change.
>
>In the past there has been a lot of discussion here, and elsewhere, on
>assistance in VHF/UHF contests, and I hope that those who have been vocal on
>both sides of that issue have made or will make their input to the committee
>known. The proposed rules are very liberal with respect to assistance, even
>with respect to the CQ WW VHF contest rules, so I encourage you to read the
>proposed changes and ponder their consequences for you and others. Then make
>constructive comments on the proposals.
>
>The proposed rules allow self spotting pretty much in all categories and
>pretty through all vehicles. This is a big change with potentially big
>consequences, so I encourage you to comment on this as well. Consider that
>self spotting is not thought of well by most of the HF contesters and those
>are some of the new activity that the committee is trying to attract.
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>Read and study the proposed rules changes. Make your concerns and desires
>known to the committee now. Don’t pass on this opportunity. If rules are
>adapted that you don’t like and you didn’t comment on them to the rule makers,
>then it will be hard to seriously take your criticism of them later. Just
>saying. - Duffey KK6MC
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>KK6MC
>James Duffey
>Cedar Crest NM
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