You are right!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
To: "Jim Forsyth" <jim@forsyth.net>
Cc: "VHF Contesting" <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Category question
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:35:55AM -0700, Jim Forsyth wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
> > To: "Mike Urich" <ka5cvh@ka5cvh.com>; "VHF Contesting"
> > <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 8:40 AM
> > Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Category question
> >
> >
> > > the QSOs you make from your fixed station at home cannot count in
> > > the Rover category
> >
> > Why not? If he operates from multiple grids then he is a rover
>
> Because it is unethical and against the rules:
>
> http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/rules-vhf.html
>
> "2.3 Rover: One or two operators of a single station that moves among two
> or more grid squares during the course of a contest."
>
> "2.3.3. Rover vehicles must transport all the equipment, power supplies,
and
> antennas used at each operating site."
>
> You cannot simply drive from one fixed station to another and call
yourself
> a rover. The entire station itself must be moved from one grid to
another.
>
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