[NLRS] vhf contest

[Russ Ramirez]

As someone who has never contested before, FT8 opened things up for me on
144. I am currently setup for satellite telemetry work, so height has not
been paramount, but if I get the 50' tower I have up this year, that will
change. If I can work stations on 50 (more often), 144 and 432 with FT8,
I'll be quite happy. I read that the IC-9700 and FT8 have put a number of
new stations on VHF/UHF, and feel that's a good thing for the hobby and the
future of activity above 50 MHz.

Just my 2 cents.

Russ
K0WFS

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 4:06 PM Matt Arthur via NLRS <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
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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