[NLRS] September VHF contest and an experiment

[dallen at owc.net]

John:
I whole heartily support this. I have looked your way for
years and worked a few but it has always been my feeling
that many Q's should be possible between the two areas.
73, Dennis N9TZL EN52

----- Original Message -----
From: w0zq at aol.com
To: nlrs at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [NLRS] September VHF contest and an experiment
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:34:44 -0400

> 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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