Most other multimode contests like the ARRL 10 meter contest, the IARU
contest, and most state QSO parties allow you to work the same station on
both CW and SSB. Field Day allows for contacts with the same station on
CW, SSB and Digital. So the precedent has already been set, and there is
no reason we can't do that in the VHF contests as well.
73 John W5TD
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 4:37 PM Randy Wing via VHFcontesting <
vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
> Digital contesting, will bring people to vhf contesting that weren't there
> before. Largely 6m people.
> I believe a digital category isn't a bad step. I also believe allowing
> people to work a contact in different modes... digital, cw, and phone...
> may be the way to encourage everyone to not ignore other modes over another.
> However, if nothing happens for rule changes will it hurt or help? I am
> not worried until the entries drop more 10% over a 3 year moving average.
> Randy, N0LD
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 4:18 PM, John Kludt<johnnykludt@gmail.com>
> wrote: Mark,
>
> Why are you assuming this only happens with digital modes? For those of us
> not fortunate enough to live in the NE VHF contesting without regard to
> mode involves lots of BSing with the guys in the shack, Internet browsing
> and maybe even a football game on TV or two. For many of us VHF contesting
> is lots of watching the panadapter, hoping that someone is out there, and
> maybe working a little FT8 while waiting for something, anything, to happen
> on SSB or even more rare CW. After moonrise things turn to JT65 EME and/or
> meteor scatter.
>
> Please keep regional differences in mind. VHF contesting is intended to be
> a country wide event. Let's make sure as we talk about rules changes we
> keep the entire country in mind and not optimize things for for the NE at
> every one else's expense.
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:47 AM Mark Spencer <mark@alignedsolutions.com>
> wrote:
>
> > While I share your views about the undesirability of working digital
> modes
> > in a contest while watching TV, a number of hams I have tried to pull
> into
> > VHF and up operating / contesting have told me they don't have the
> patience
> > to mostly listen to static for hours on end. (Even participating in a
> net
> > for an hour where one mostly hears static seems to try the patience of a
> > number of other operators I know.) I can see why using digital modes
> while
> > doing something non amateur radio related may appeal to some.
> >
> > 73
> > Mark S
> > VE7AFZ
> >
> > mark@alignedsolutions.com
> > 604 762 4099
> >
> > > On Sep 25, 2019, at 8:41 AM, Stephen Hewlett via VHFcontesting <
> > vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The comment about watching TV with an iPad and working people with a
> > remote desktop app left me flat as well. I have found that in life you
> > generally get out of something in terms of satisfaction what you put into
> > it. Watching TV with an iPad while VHF contesting doesn't seem very
> > satisfying to me. I wouldn't bother if that was my only VHF contesting
> > option. Steve N4NIV
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jonesy W3DHJ via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
> > > Cc: Jonesy W3DHJ <mailserver@jonz.net>; VHF Contesters <
> > VHFcontesting@contesting.com>
> > > Sent: Wed, Sep 25, 2019 9:18 am
> > > Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Digital ... contesting
> > >
> > >> On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Doug Gilliam wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Well put Lew!
> > >>
> > >> Those of us who put a lot of expense, time, and skill into our
> > >> stations, and who appreciate a hard fought cw contact, get frustrated
> > >> with being thoroughly beaten by an operator sitting in his easy chair
> > >> with a laptop and a good 6 meter opening.
> > >
> > > What rubbed my Rover fur backwards a few weeks ago was this comment
> > > posted after a contest weekend:
> > >
> > > "The big advantage of that mode for me is that I
> > > can sit in the bedroom watching TV with an iPad in
> > > my lap and work people via a remote desktop app."
> > >
> > > Jonesy W3DHJ
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