Since NO rovers were heard or worked In DN17 for the last 2-3 years I am just
working Locals some who do get on and look east. MOST of my grid and Mults are
EME/MS ..Just saying Mark W7MEM
> From: mark@alignedsolutions.com
> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:50:36 -0700
> To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Are EME/MS digital QSOes reducing rovers
> contributions?
>
> A few comments re this.
>
> I've found that MS / long haul digital qso's are challenging to make while
> roving / portable especially if I don't have good Internet connectivity.
> Over 90 percent of the successful MS / long haul digi mode QSO's that I have
> made outside of contests would not have happened without constant access to
> the internet by both me and the other station. These QSO's on average
> probably took 30 minutes or so to complete.
>
> During the last contest I spent about an hour in total of my six and a half
> hours of prime operating time in a semi rare grid trying to work MS with no
> results. About half this time was spent in an effort to work a station in a
> rare grid that prior to the contest had announced they were going to run on
> digi modes. Deciding to run MS / digi modes was my choice though and on
> balance I'd probably do it again as I would have liked to work the rare grid,
> and I figured I had a reasonable chance of picking up at least one more grid
> in that hour, but things didn't work out that way.
>
> (Between the 11am pst contest start time, and my desire to have a two hour
> tear down and packup process done before nightfall I had about 6 and a half
> hours to run the entire station. I was able to keep the 2M station up until
> the very end. Staying overnight is also apparently not allowed in that
> location.)
>
> I doubt I will run MS or long haul digi modes in a future contest without a
> pre arranged sched on a frequency other than the customary calling
> frequencies, and preferably some form of near real time communications with
> the other station to confirm that they are looking for me.
>
> In hindsight during the last contest I'm almost certain I would have picked
> up more grids and or bands by focusing on terrestrial ssb / CW for another
> hour, but hindsight is 20/20 and I wanted to work the rare grid more than I
> wanted to simply run up my score.
>
> To answer the question though, In my case at least the answers is that yes,
> MS / digi efforts did in hindsight reduce my roving contribution. I'll put
> more thought into running these modes or not in future contests. All that
> being said I do like having the option to run these modes and I'm fine with
> the rules as they are. I just need to put more thought into how I choose to
> run my station.
>
> 73's Mark S
> VE7AFZ
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>
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