Some of the CQ contests have a contest-overlay of ROOKIE, for people
licensed either 2 years or less or 3 years or less (I can't remember right
now and am too lazy to look it up). Maybe such a contest-overlay could
also be developed for the ARRL VHF and UHF contests,.
73 John AF5CC
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:24 PM, James Duffey via VHF <
vhf@w6yx.stanford.edu> wrote:
> John - Thanks for your comments, it is nice to get the perspective of a
> newcomer. As the years and contests accumulate, it is hard for some of us
> to remember what our first VHF/UHF contest was like.
> Please forward your comments to the committee, < vhf-input@arrl.org >, so
> they will be considered. You wrote:
> > I can’t tell if the goal of the proposed changes is to make the
> >contesting pie bigger or just to split up the pie differently.
> Well, the stated purpose of the committee is to increase VHF/UHF activity
> in general and VHF/UHF contest activity in particular. So, I guess that
> would correspond to making the contest pie bigger.
>
> Over the past few contests we have made an effort to work FM participants
> and it has helped our score. Few of them turn in a log though, despite our
> encouragement to do so. I think you are right, the FMers have a lot to
> offer to contesting and are a fertile field to develop.
> Several years ago I suggested to the appropriate league people that they
> add a VHF date to the Rookie Roundup. The answer then was that it was hard
> enough to get activity to justify the HF Rookie Roundups, let alone add a
> new one. I would hope that the situation would be better for a VHF/UHF only
> contest, but there needs to be activity to justify the effort put out by
> contest organizers.
> Thanks for your input. - Duffey KK6MC
>
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> James Duffey
> Cedar Crest NM
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