[NLRS] September VHF contest and an experiment

[w0zq at aol.com]

Hello NLRS land.

During each contest many of us who live in NLRS-land, on the edge of 
the western frontier (yes, tongue in cheek), have had difficulties in 
working eastward into the grid rich state of Wisconsin, northern IL, IN 
and western MI. At the same time, those located in those eastern areas, 
CVCC and Badger Contesters, have had a hard time working into the QSO 
rich NLRS area. As an experiment, it has been suggest that we have a 
east-west activity time where those of us who live in MN look east and 
those who live in WI/MI look west. One suggestion is to have two such 
activity times during the Sept contest, perhaps one hour on Sat., then 
again another hour on Sunday with the idea that not everyone can make 
both time slots, but they may be able to make one. For example 7 - 8 pm 
Sat and 1 - 2 pm Sunday, etc, etc.

If this seems like a good experiment we can communicate this via the 
NLRS, Badger Contester, and CVCC reflectors for the Sept contest.

Thoughts ?

73, Jon
W0ZQ
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