[NLRS] vhf contest

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

I heard you a couple times Sunday late afternoon but I couldn't get you 
to hear me using my dual band vertical that had a good SWR. The only 
signals I copied during the contest. The two beams pointed east had a 
high SWR on transmit and didn't let the receiver hear the trash signals 
from the digital TV power supply on 144.198> I expect several inches of 
snow in the past few days accompanied by occasional freezing drizzle 
have upset the feeds of the 2m and 432 beams. I listened on 6m for SSB 
and CW from 8 AM Sunday to about 8 PM central time and heard nothing 
with a call sign, no beacons at all. The 6m tuner showed a good match 
without having to adjust the tuner but it might be indicating that snow 
and ice on that feed and ends of the long dipole are affected by snow 
and ice. I'm not ready to go to FT8. I've been working CW for 65 years 
without computers.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 1/20/2020 4:06 PM, Matt Arthur via NLRS wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Well that was the slowist jan vhf contest i can remember.
>
> I turnd in my scor to arrl.
>
> my first time to do that myself.
>
> I think there were plenty of folks on if you had ft8
>
> It seems now if your not on ft8 you may as well forget about vhf uhf
> week signal
>
> I am hoping to get ft8 going some blind folks have had success with it
> some say it's very limoted.
>
> If i can't get it going i will probably feel it's time to give up vhf
> and let the station go.
>
> There is just no activity on anymore with out contest and now for
> contesting and band openings you need ft8
>
> May as well let the ccommercial boys have most of the week signal bands
> and leave a sliver for the ft8
>
> we arn't using the spectrom anyway.
>
> It's to bad that this is the way it's going.
>
> People don't even talk anymore just excange contact using your computer.
>
> While i am not 100 percent against ft8 it's being over used.
>
> So we'll see what happens.
>
> I can sure say i was disapointed.
>
> Thanks 73 Matt ka0pqw
>
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