You will note that the VUAC report to the board is brief. The committee has been very active and done alot of work. Their recommendations were not included in the report itself. They desire that Joe, K1JT and staff produce an explanatory letter to the EME community explaining the rationale of Part 1 of their proposal below, prior to the proposed rules being made public. FYI at our Thursday meeting PSC accepted the VUAC report. Due largely to the absence of our VUAC liaison at this meeting we referred the proposal to the Awards Committee, with their action to be a report back to PSC. * VUAC Proposal, December 20, 2008 * * Part 1: EME Contest Rules * A) Adopt reformulated ARRL EME contest rules as documented in EME_v5.doc (attached). B) *Prior* to release of the updated EME contest rules that the VUAC work with the ARRL staff to establish a document that discusses the rational for the rule changes and that this document be placed on the ARRL's website for the purpose of improved communication with the EME contest community. * Part 2: Rover rules. Change the General VHF Contest Rules to read: * 2.3.8. Any rover making more than 30 contacts with any one other rover, or more than 50% of its total contacts with other rovers, will be placed in the Unlimited Rover category. 2.4. Limited Rover. Same as the "Rover" class above but participates with no more than the four lowest frequency bands that are defined for any given contest. Their output power is restricted to the same power levels as those defined for the Single Operator Low Power category (2.1.1) * Part 3: Minimum distance rule. Modify the General VHF Contest Rules to read: * 1.10 While no minimum distance is specified for contacts, equipment shall have been demonstrated to be capable of communications at a range of at least 1 km. * Part 4 : Add club competition to the August UHF Contest. Modify General Contestrule 8.1.9 by adding the following section: * 8.1.9 (August) UHF Contest. ---- end ---- ------------------------------ Listen to 350+ music, sports, & news radio stations FREE while you browse.Start Listening Now<http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlweusdown00000022>!