ARRL September VHF Contest - 2019
Call: WZ1V
Operator(s): WZ1V
Station: WZ1V
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: FN31RH
Operating Time (hrs): 23
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 155 45
2: 125 30
222: 48 22
432: 58 22
903:
1.2: 26 13
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 412 132 Total Score = 75,240
Club: North East Weak Signal Group
Comments:
Had some nice contacts on all the bands really. Worked
WS3C FM19 and W1GHZ FN34 for new ones on 1296.
No 6M Es observed here, but there was a narrow
tropo duct to the SW all Sunday morning. Both
W4IY and AA4ZZ were 59 up through 432.
Unfortunately the digital modes taking hold has
reduced the fun factor in VHF contesting for me.
Yes I do use it and it does make contacts that
might be difficult if not impossible without it.
But it has drastically reduced the potential for
finding contacts on the bands above 2M.
Too many people with good equipment on higher
bands are getting stuck on 50.313 and 144.174
for too long making themselves unavailable to
anyone wishing to work them up through the bands.
I'm guilty of falling into this trap myself,
it's addictive, and hard to yank yourself out.
Some say use the Chat Page more, but that has created
another problem with so much greater use it scrolls
by far too fast to be useful, at least for me.
It's becoming a contest of who can type and click
on their computers the fastest, thereby taking away
from the original intent of being a proving ground
to improve our actual operating skills and ability
to discern the weakest signals ourselves without
depending on a computer to do it for us.
Sadly we're allowing ourselves to be replaced.
-73 Ron WZ1V
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