[NLRS] KC9BQA Contest Report

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

Do we have too many contest? Possibly, but today it seems we have 
virtually no VHF/UHF or microwave activity without contests. Down here 
near the Boondocks, most evenings 144.2 +/- sounds like 160m middle of a 
stormy summer day. Narry a signal not created by something in the house 
like computer monitor hash. Hearing no signals is sort of inhibiting on 
upgrading or creating the station capable of competing with eastern 
stations where there is activity within 200 miles consistently though 
the reported scores from out east don't beat my one page of log by much.

Probably we do too much of this that we COULD do on the air if we were 
on the same band at the same time.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 9/14/2010 11:40 AM, w0zq at aol.com wrote:
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> Hi Todd.  Thanks for the report, sound like you did have some fun given the level of activity.  The September contest has suffered with a decreasing lack of activity through the last couple of years - perhaps someone can pull the trend together in terms of number of logs, but I know that the trend has been down.   This compares to an increasing trend for January and June (less sure about January, but I think it has been up, or at least not down like Sept).   Bill's comments about it being too close to the now more popular August UHF and the two 10 gig contests may be spot on.  Not sure what the answer is, but do we have too many contests?   Another thought that has been voiced by others is to change the September VHF contest format, perhaps to distance based scoring or ?? - there is no reason that the big three contest have to all be the same format.  Given that September has been on the decrease, would a change of rules draw more activity?
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> 73, Jon
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