[NLRS] KC9BQA Contest Report

[Zack Widup]

I missed this past weekend's contest because I was sick. But I am always
willing to do some operation outside of contest times if I can manage it.

 I've made several skeds with people on microwave bands. We keep trying
until we've made it. I know K8TQK and K4TO work regularly in the mornings on
the bands through 10 GHz. Ron W9ZIH is usually active every morning on
144.260 looking for microwave QSO's. Aside from them, I don't know how many
others do.

144.200 is usually pretty quiet around here, too.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson
<geraldj at weather.net>wrote:

>
>
> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 73, Jon
> > W0ZQ
> >
> >
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