[PaQSO] FM activity

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:30:59 -0400

And I want to use this opportunity to state what is behind my desire to
increase participation, whether it be more 10/15/20 meter activity or VHF
activity or something else.

Sunday afternoons get to be a bit of a drag for me. Noon to 5 p.m. local on
Sunday is very slow for me; most of my QSO's come from S&P'ing on 40 SSB
and CW or begging on 20 phone or trying to catch the mobiles as they change
countys, at which I fail miserably. If there were more activity of "20 and
up" Saturday, some of the 40 phone runs would/could be shifted to Sunday,
filling up that slow time.

If it were not for my intense competition with N3FR I'd probably shut down
and watch football or take a snooze or someting. But to keep up with him I
have to bleed every Q's I can out of those bands.

So yes, I've got a personal ax I'm grinding here. Not in the sense that
this would help me and not N3FR and others, but it would take away some of
the slow time. And I do not think the personality of the event would be
impacted.

But hey, I realize this is all just so much idle chatter. As far as I'm
concerned, were all (everyone on this reflector) sitting at a local pub,
sipping cold ones, and bs'ing about someting we all enjoy very much.

And, when you come right down to it, Sunday in PaQP is not unlike Sunday in
Sweepstakes, and proably some other contests.

Ed/WA3SES

                      Bob Crossland                                                                                                    
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Or even better, 2 meter CW......the mode that keeps on giving.

Bob Crossland
Sr. Product Manager
TelCove
121 Champion Way
Canonsburg, PA  15317
(724) 743-9576
[email protected]
http://www.telcove.com

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PaQSO] FM activity

Well as for the 2 meter i think the VHF stuff is well worth the efforts i
have no access to 6 meters but i know that 6 would work very well to grab
some other QSO's I have noticed a trend in the PAQSO as more and more
people
upgraded such as myself the VHF activity has gone down. i remember the
first
few years that i operated in the PAQSO on just 2 meters and 440 only. i was
able to work 96 QSO's now with everyone limiting themselves to HF i don't
think i see that score if i limited myself to VHF and UHF again. usually
when people talk about VHF anfd UHF they only think about 2 meter FM what
about 2 Meter SBB?? you can get a little more distance out of SBB then FM
with a good Beam.

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