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> 1. Re: VHFcontesting Digest, Vol 160, Issue 24 (Kermit Carlson)
> 2. 2016 VHF and up Spring Sprints > 222 MHz Sprint Tuesday 19
> April (Mike Metroka)
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> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:35:35 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Kermit Carlson <w9xa@yahoo.com>
> To: "vhfcontesting@contesting.com" <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] VHFcontesting Digest, Vol 160, Issue 24
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> Hello Terry et al
> ??????? PLEASE remember to send your thought, comments andsuggestions to
> vhf-input@arrl.org?? The Committee membersare on all of the reflectors but
> the only way to insure thatyour voice is heard is to email that address.?
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> ??????????????????????????????? 73, Kermit Carlson W9XA
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:46:48 -0400
> From: "Terry Price" <w8zn54@verizon.net>
> To: "'VHF Contesting'" <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] New UHF contest rules and thoughts
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> I'm puzzled why the negativity on eme contacts, anyone know why? If someone
> has the equipment and the technical ability, why limit them? I've always
> felt the same about single ops being able to work multiple bands at once, if
> you are good enough to do it, why limit someone. As far as scoring goes,
> just place a limit of the max distance, seems pretty easy to me.
>
> Given the amount of other contests through the summer, the date is ok. I do
> a lot of mountaintopping and there will still be snow on some of the places
> possibly but I've also been in the UP of Michigan in August and the black
> flies are big enough to carry you away so I understand!!
>
> Distance scoring should not be feared. Yes, it might take a contest to get
> used to but there are many benefits - first and foremost it will all but
> eliminate the pack roving being a good way to pad your score since a real
> station in the Midwest can work WAY farther and get a bigger multiplier.
> Most logging programs support the Stew Perry 160 contest so the logic is in
> the programs. For the folks that roll their own logging programs my hat is
> off to you for being able to do that but if you are smart enough to write
> one, you should have the skills to make this change. I also think it will
> help to level the playing field between folks in the Midwest and east coast
> folks. There is nothing any of us can do about the fact there are more
> people on the eastern side of the US and thus more VHF activity. But with
> that increased activity and additional population comes QRM and QRN. When I
> lived in EM79, I would almost always out multiplier folks in the NE and out
> distance them but was way down in Q's. My hope is this will help this
> situation and show a station in W9 land that can work 500 miles in all
> directions can compete with someone in FNXX that has the ocean 100 miles to
> the east.
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> Last is my biggest pet peeve. The rover scoring that the ARRL had a knee
> jerk reaction to many years ago and damn near killed a good thing. Through a
> loop hole in the rules someone doing their best to help their club was able
> to amass a BIG score and really piss of other clubs. It was no one's fault,
> in a contest you do what you can within the written rules to get the biggest
> score....pretty simple. In those days, every time a rover changed grids they
> started their log over and at the end all the logs were added and you could
> get a HUGE score but it ENCOURAGED rovers to hit as many grids as you could
> because your score really went up. What should have been done and it still
> could be in they would stop being so political and think about rovers who
> are really the ones that make a lot of excitement during the contests is to
> just limit or eliminate rover scores from club competition. Just the fact a
> rover is out there adding to every members score is enough to help their
> club WITHOUT having to add their individual score. Plus, for the western
> rovers where roads are more wide open and grid boundaries lay on more road
> lines, it would help them immensely which is a GOOD THING!!!!
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> I hope the ARRL listens and adopts the majorities ideas!!
>
> Terry - W8ZN
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 20:04:14 -0500
> From: "Mike Metroka" <VHFrover@aol.com>
> To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] 2016 VHF and up Spring Sprints > 222 MHz
> Sprint Tuesday 19 April
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> Last week's 144 MHz Spring Sprint was well attended! Thanks to all that got
> on the air and a special Thank You to all those who submitted their score to
> the 3830 Scores web site! The second sprint is the 222 MHz sprint on
> Tuesday starting at 7pm local. Get on the air and make some VHF noise!
> SSB, CW and FM will all have activity.
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> 222 MHz: Tuesday, 4/19/16 from 7 - 11 PM local, Exchange: 4 char grid
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> 432 MHz: Wednesday, 4/27/16 from 7 - 11 PM local, Exchange: 4 char grid
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> Microwave, 902 MHz and up: Saturday, 5/7/16 from 8 AM - 2 PM local,
> Exchange: 6 char grid
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> 50 MHz: Saturday, 5/14/16 from 2300Z until 0300Z Sunday, 5/10/15, Exchange:
> 4 char grid
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> More information and rules are posted at:
> https://sites.google.com/site/springvhfupsprints/home
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> 73
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> Mike Metroka WB8BZK & Kent O'Dell KA2KQM
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> Central States VHF Society Spring Sprint Organizing Committee
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