[NLRS] Question on use of 144.200

[S. Earl Jarosh]

What bothers me here is; What is the purpose?  It seems that the whole
premise is pointless.  This proposal would not spread people throughout the
band.  If the idea is to eliminate congestion on 144.200, then it will just
transfer to somewhere else like 144.175 and that will become the new
"contest calling frequency".  Again I say change must not be done just for
change sake,  there must be a purpose behind a change not a change in search
of a purpose.  Leave well enough alone.  This has worked well for years.
Don't look for ways to penalize users working a contest rather look for
other ways to promote more involvement in contests, band use, etc.  Create
bonus points per contact to get people on the road, to go portable in a
field, work solar or battery.  If there is a problem with the calling
frequency maybe the national calling frequency should be moved to say
144.300 and then there is no problem.  144.200 stays as it is and if there
are those that are bothered by the contesting or grid hunting then they have
a new calling frequency that they can monitor 24 hrs a day that has no
traffic. 

That's all I have to say about that.


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Subject: [NLRS] Question on use of 144.200



Hello NLRS land.   
 
Our ARRL VUAC (Vhf Uhf Advisory Committee) is now up and  operational.   
Lauren Libby, W0LD, our VUAC chairperson has launched  us on our first
official 
assignment.   The question is this - Is there  a rationale to change the
VHF/UHF 
contest rules to not allow the  use of 144.200 during ARRL contests ?    If 
not a rule change,  what about other action such as a FAQ page on using the
calling frequency or a  page on best practices for contest operations ?
 
If you have some thoughts on this subject, you can reply direct to me, or
to 
the NLRS reflector (discussion is good).   Please feel free to
share/forward 
this with others.
 
73, Jon
W0ZQ
Dakota VUAC
 
 
Come and join  us here in Bloomington, Minnesota, home of the Mall of
America, July 28 &  29, 2006 for the 40th annual Central States VHF Society
Conference hosted once  again by the NLRS.
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