I cant afford to invest in equipment above the 4 bands I have. Im a rover
partly due to this fact, the other is my dad was a rover so thats what I
love. But the expence to add a band then another then another for any
station rover or home qth is a big deal. So I think rules have tried to get
increased activity on the bottom 4. But I have not seen a significant
increase in new calls in my logs or when I partner with Brian N3IQ. I enjoy
working all the bands with him and its a challenge but he over the years
has been able to get to where he is now. My last point is 6m 2m and 432 are
band you can work other contacts all year round. If you upgrade to 222 its
for contest reasons. With that said I have no desire to upgrade above the
bottom 4 regardless of point values to be gained by adding higher bands.
Dave N3XUD FM19
On Sunday, February 22, 2015, John Geiger <af5cc@fidmail.com> wrote:
> I would be thrilled to hear anyone on any band above 432 in my area. I
> would be thrilled to hear QRM on 432 here.
>
>
> 73 John AF5CC
> EM04to
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Paul Kiesel via VHFcontesting <
> vhfcontesting@contesting.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Hi Terry,
> > I guess the majority responders to your question already have invested
> > into buying the equipment necessary to operate on the higher bands. And I
> > also guess that those who haven't made such an investment may have
> already
> > decided they wouldn't do so, anyway.
> >
> > Here is my thought on the matter. If it is possible for a station to have
> > more QSOs and get more multipliers while working a single band in a
> > contest, the scoring regime needs to be revisited if a station using more
> > than one band can achieve a higher score than the single band station
> while
> > gathering fewer QSOs and fewer multipliers (total) than he.
> > 73, Paul K7CW
> >
> >
> >
> > From: "w8zn54@verizon.net <javascript:;>" <w8zn54@verizon.net
> <javascript:;>>
> > To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com <javascript:;>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 5:53 PM
> > Subject: [VHFcontesting] Question to the group
> >
> > Does anyone feel that giving extra points for 2.3G and up has out lived
> > it's usefulness? You can order a complete high quality transverter system
> > from DEMI or DB6NT and it's easier to work folks on 10GHz in the 10GHz
> > contest than trying to catch them on 2m!!! It just seems that adding
> > another band which automatically gives you more Q's and grids is enough
> of
> > a bonus. When getting on the microwaves required an engineering degree
> and
> > $20K in test equipment, I would agree but now it just seems a relic.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Terry Price
> > W8ZN - ex K8ISK/WD8ISK
> > 1.8 MHZ - 47 GHz - FM18dv
> > Member of the K8GP Contest Group
> > FM19bb
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