[Moon-net] ARRL contest....an after thought

[F2TU Philippe]

Hello Charlie,
I completely agree with you!
But that it is already improved. there was not before two weekends for 
all the bands 2m > 10GHz. I fought for changed that. Helped by Al W5LUA 
we obtained a third weekend for 2.3GHz & up in 2004. But now many people 
on 13cm. Alex RW1AW solved the problem partly: it has at least three 
Tranceivers which goes. And much of dishs.
It is true that it is difficult to work on several bands and some make 
better dead ends to have qsos or to make initials on a band.

For this contest, I juggled by changing seven times of feed on the dish 
what asked for a total of 90 min, luckily the wx was good. You missed me 
because leaving the 5.7GHz 15 min too early to make then only 1 qso 
between 21:30 and 23:30 on 2.3GHz! With each exchange one loses qos on a 
band: there is Oms which does not make really the contest and which is 
not active during all the duration. They sleep them!!!
Rule of European contest is better, but only if you work one day on 
10Ghz and one day on 5.7GHz both the same weekend, weekends separated 
for 13 & 23cm. And also you are classified in each band, ARRL you choice 
only one.

In spite of that it was a very good contest:
13cm 30 qsos (27 for 2006)
6cm 7 qsos (5)
3cm 14 qsos (7)
They missed stations 2006 replaced by others. If all had been there…. 
But “with IF one could put Paris in a bottle”

Thank you with all for the qsos and my excuses with those which called 
me without having answer.

73

Philippe F2TU
http://F2TU.perso.orange.fr



Charlie Kahwagi a écrit :
> What a great weekend on uW EME. Thanks to all the stations whom took the time to contact me, especially when  my window  meant  little reward for less sleep  between the main activity periods.
>
> I have just had a little email exchange with a few stations anout the WE and  I got thinking.......
>
> 1. I know there a very few ops in the southern hemisphere at present ,  and no amount of singing and dancing and shouting will change things but it sure would be nice to have contests with the moon a little higher in the sky and the windows just that little bit longer............wishful thinking I know....majority rules...etc....
>
> but a more important point:
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> 2.  The No. of stations on 13cm and 3 cm  judging by the reports is staggering.  Being QRV on 4 bands I had to make a decision to restrict myself to 2 bands because of time..............In truth I could have run with 13cm  all weekend and I still wouldn't have worked everyone that I potentially could of.  ....and all of this from a QRP station...what about the big guns.....
> Gentlemen are we shooting ourselves in the foot  and DISCOURAGING activity by having  a contest where 13, 9, 6 , 3 and 1.25 (potentially) are on the same weekend!
> Contests are supposed to encourage activity.............If you are QRV on 13cm  why would you want to add another band....obviously for the technical challenge,  but certainly not to make yourself busy during the ARRL 2304 and up weekend.
> It seems that to extract the full potential of activity that could be encouraged on the uW EME bands  we might need seperate weekends for these very busy bands or  lots more "activity weekends" like Peter and Al recently organised for 9cm.
> ...............am I off the track with this one?   If  so I'll crawl back into my hole.
>
> I just feel that there was an enourmous amount of activity on the bands I did and didn't operate on and that there might be a better way to harness that enthusiasm into  more activity weekends.   (those that do operate on more than 1 band might also get a little more sleep!)
>
> I am not sure if any of this has been bought up before  and I realise that there are disadvantages and advantages to splitting the contest  over say 2 or 3 weekends  so before you "return fire"  at my thoughts  please be gentle....I'm only new to this!
>
> 73
> and tnx for all the QSO's
> Charlie
> VK3NX
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