Hi Keith: I agree. VHF and above is a very small pond,
ON4KST currently has the largest participation IMO.
We need to pool together, not diversify.
-73, Ron WZ1V
----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Morehouse <w9rm@calmesapartners.com>
To: "vhfcontesting@contesting.com" <VHFcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:41:00 -0600
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] 432 Sprint and Spotting
> The WORST thing we could do is create a bunch of redundant, local chat
> or spotting pages. We need everybody on the same "page" when it comes
> to contest spotting. For me, accessing one page for the west coast
> when pointing west, and accessing a different page while pointing
> another direction isn't going to happen.
>
> For the time being, ON4KST's excellent chat pages:
> http://www.on4kst.com/chat/start.php
> is the BEST resource, IMO and is already used by a large number of
> people (1000's). There are dedicated pages for different regions of
> the world and different bands within those regions.
>
> As to how to "filter" the information, one will just have to do the
> best they can, for now.
>
> Jay W9RM DM58
>
>
> Keith J Morehouse
> Managing Partner
> Calmesa Partners G.P.
> Olathe, CO
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Marshall-K5QE <k5qe@k5qe.com> wrote:
> >
> > Because VHF is regional by nature(except for EME), posting to a national
> > resource(cluster, chat page, reflector, whatever) is not going to be
> > productive. For those of us in TX, it does not do much good for
someone in
> > WA to post their desire for meteor scatter contacts. Clearly, the
reverse
> > is true as well. I have been mulling this problem over in my mind and
have
> > not come up with any great solution.
> >
> > I have thought that we might have regional chat pages where you can
look for
> > stations in your general region. For meteor scatter, we might have
> > something like west coast, central US, and east coast. Clearly, for
many,
> > these areas overlap. I can see problems with this idea, but if everyone
> > posts everything to PingJockey, 1)their server will probably collapse,
2)the
> > posts would be running up the screen so fast that you would never see
anyone
> > that you wanted to work, even if they were there.S contacts will have
> > chat pages / reflectors dedicated to just that. I just don't know how
this
> > should be made to work. We have lots of bright guys out there, now is
the
> > time for us to figure this one out.....
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