Greetings - At its July 16 meeting, the Programs and Services Committee unanimously accepted and approved a recommendation from its VHF and Above Revitalization Committee to remove the prohibition of making contest contacts on 146.52 MHz simplex. This rule, as we understand it, originated back to when 2-meter radios were mostly rock-bound and the use of 146.52 MHz was commonplace. The restriction, it is believed, has never applied to the calling frequency of any other band. VHF and Above Revitalization Committee's research concluded that the 146.52-exclusive restriction is unnecessary today. Permitting the use of 146.52 MHz would allow new/curious contesters possessing only FM mode radios to stumble on more contacts, increasing the chances that they will be drawn further into VHF+ contesting, which is the primary aim of the Revitalization committee. Word of the Revitalization committee's recommendation and PSC's subsequent approval was floated at last July's Central States VHF Conference and met with great enthusiasm. Both PSC and the Revitalization committee seek to have this restriction removed ahead of the 2016 contest season. The January VHF Contest is first up, and its rules need to be published online and in QST in December (at the latest). We wanted to provide a quick heads up about this prior to asking staff next week to proceed with removing this restriction from applicable contest rules. Thank you and 73, Brian N5ZGT