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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/WKQVHXW3IO6GWCJCHRXRUAH3257HT7FZ/?format=api",
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        "address": "les (a) highnoonfilm.com",
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    "sender_name": "Les Rayburn",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] 5 Band VUCC Award",
    "date": "2013-06-19T14:23:11Z",
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    "content": "Several amateurs have written to tell me that they are reaching out to \ntheir ARRL Division Directors and endorsing the idea of a Five Band \nVHF-UHF Century Club Award. My hope is\nthat VHF Associations such as the SEVHFS, Central States, AMSAT, etc. \nwould also endorse the proposal.\n\nSome more clarification on my suggestion to create a Five Band VHF-UHF \nCentury Club Award:\n\nThe main purpose of the award is to increase on-air activity both during \ncontests and band openings. It would also spur activity on linear \nsatellites, and hopefully encourage more weak signal operators to\ntry satellite operation.\n\n  There are more than a few operators who have already achieved VUCC on \nmultiple bands,\nand worked a lot of grids during their careers. Some of these stations \nnow only get on for contests, and largely ignore band openings and day \nto day operation. The award is an incentive for\nthese stations to return to the air since it resets everyone's score \ncard to zero.\n\nMy other hope is that the award will help to elevate the status of the \nVUCC Award overall, and encourage more operators to get involved in VHF \nDXing.\n\n1.) A requirement to include at least one of the lower VHF bands such as \n6 Meters, 2 Meters, or 222 to prevent someone from simply going out with \nmicrowave gear and earning the award\nin a weekend. Personally, I would favor 2 Meters as a requirement since \nthis is perhaps the most difficult of the VUCC Awards to achieve and \nwould insure the most on-air activity.\n\n2.) By making the award a Five Band award, you insure that at least one \nmicrowave band will be required to earn the award, thus increasing \nparticipation on the Microwave bands. (Technically, this\ncould be avoided by earning one for Satellite operation and then 902, \nbut you get the point)\n\n3.) Satellite VUCC has been available since the award was created. It \nwould remain one of the options for earning the award and qualify as a \n\"band\" for that purpose. Anyone who thinks Satellite work\nisn't weak signal doesn't operate satellites.\n\n4.) Resetting everyone to zero has no bearing on past VUCC award credit, \nFEMA credit, or your bragging rights. It just helps to get people out of \ntheir chair during the NFL Championship game and back\nonto the air. It also simplifies the programming requirements for \nLogbook of the World in implementing the new award, and makes it faster \nfor the ARRL to implement the new award.\n\n5.) Endorsements for modes such as CW, digital, EME, etc. would \ncertainly be a good option. If anyone could earn this award on a single \nmode or type of propagation my hat would really be off to you!\nMore likely would be endorsements for other bands, so you could have a \neight band VUCC, etc.\n\nTo work the award would need a lot of Public Relations support from the \nARRL to promote it, and build it's prestige among amateurs. Sean are you \nlistening? (ha, ha) VUCC has always suffered\nan identity crisis among hams, and been viewed as the \"little brother\" \nto the DXCC. The Fred Fish Memorial Award seems to have avoided that \nproblem, and is coveted by operators.\n\nHave you checked the total number of VUCC Awarded once you exclude 6 \nMeters? It's amazingly small on some bands---proof positive that even \nVHF Operators don't always consider VUCC as\na goal. Changing the perception of the award will be an important job \nfor the league and VHF associations.\n\n\n-- \n--\n73,\n\nLes Rayburn, N1LF\n121 Mayfair Park\nMaylene, AL 35114\nEM63nf\n\n6M VUCC #1712\nAMSAT #38965\nGrid Bandits #222\nSoutheastern VHF Society\nCentral States VHF Society Life Member\nSix Club #2484\n\nActive on 6 Meters thru 1296, 10GHz & Light\n\n",
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