[FLWSS] K4HV UHF Contest

[wlbaber at bellsouth.net]

I thought there would be more activity too....thought perhaps I missed out because I didn't operate on Saturday.  Certainly there is more potential  on 432mhz just based upon the weekly net activity.   Still, nice to know that my stuff is working, and maybe the contest next month will be better. 

73, Will, wj9b, dit dit
> 
> From: "Walter Dail" <kt4ja at cfl.rr.com>
> Date: 2006/08/06 Sun PM 07:10:51 EDT
> To: "Florida Weak Signal Society" <flwss at flwss.net>
> Subject: [FLWSS] K4HV UHF Contest
> 
> ARRL-SECTION: SFL
> CONTEST: ARRL-UHF-AUG
> CALLSIGN: K4HV
> CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH 
> CLAIMED-SCORE: 3036
> CLUB: Florida Weak Signal Society
> 
> Conditions were marginal in the morning hours. I guess I expected more
> participation and didn't hear a lot of the regulars.
> 
> They should move this contest(and 10GHz Up) out of the hottest summer months
> to May or October. 
> I have no clue why the ARRL schedules contests for the hardest bands to get
> on at the worst time
> of the year. It's just too hot for any propagation to happen.
> There's a big stretch of dead time from the January to June Contests, and
> from the Sept. to Jan.
> Contests. Why not put them there?
> 
> Maybe that's half of the decline of the UHF contest. Too hot for
> propagation(and going portable) which makes it seem like low turnout. So
> then people quit trying...
> 
> 
> 73,
> Walter K4HV
> 
> 
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