[NLRS] MN QSO Party HF vs VHF clarification....

[Bruce Richardson]

It may have been obvious to you but it was not obvious to me by reading the
rules about HF stations also making VHF contacts so I asked WB0TRA for a
clarification.

HF is "supposed" to be completely separate from VHF. If an HF'er works some
VHF Q's, he's supposed to break those out as a separate VHF entry.  I'm not
sure that will happen in 100% of the cases, but that's the sponsoring
organization's deal to sort out.

In my case, I will be submitting two entries:  one VHF for all Q's made
above 50 MHz and another for Single-Op QRP.  So in my case, I'll need to
work as many counties in each entry as possible.  I anticipate a fair amount
of activity tomorrow on VHF--both FM and SSB.  And after a SSB QSO, I know
the standard request will be "QSY for CW?"  Oh, it doesn't say we "can't"
use 146.52, but we vhf'ers are so disciplined from the ARRL events that I
expect there will be a fair amount of FM activity on .55, .58, 146.46,
147.47, etc.

I am "on-call" tomorrow and may get called out, but in the event I don't,
I'll be dabbling in the contest off and on throughout the day.  N0KP reports
he'll be on his halo on 2m in LeSeur and Scott counties 9:30ish--look for
him on .200.

Bruce Richardson - W9FZ

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