General Rules for ARRL Contests on Bands Above 50 MHz 2.3.5.All Rovers are encouraged to adopt operating practices that allow as many stations as possible to contact them. 73, Jim w0eea@aol.com
You write a new rule based upon an arbitrary percentage of the contacts in the rover's log that can be made with any one station. To me that is 49%. If half or more of the contacts in a rover's log
Hello All, The term is 'rover squared.' In practice two rovers work each other on all their common bands from and to each of the grids at a four corners location. If they then drive to another four c
Hi Dan, One of the problems with captive rovers is that you often don't know they are there. Without seeing the logs you can't tell, after all the reason they are a problem is that you don't get to
I used to be on the crew for a m/m group that fielded stations in the June and September VHF contests. We used to regularly come in second to fifth in that class. We almost always worked more grids
Your mail to 'Contest' with the subject Congratulations Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. I sent no mail to the Contesting reflector in the last week. "Congratulation
W?EEA w0eea@aol.com 14 miles East of Kiowa, Colorado N39-18 W104-12 DM79vh For the January VHF Sweepstakes we will be on as an unlimited multi-operator station. Five operators. 6 Meters thru 24 GHz p
Hi, I just loaded the W0EEA log from the VHF QSO party to <A HREF="www.eQSL.cc">www.eQSL.cc</A> Anyone we worked can pick up a printer ready QSL there. Thanks to all of you (especially the rovers on
To VHF+ contesters and the ARRL VHF Contesting Committee: While your basic goals are desirable, your recommended methods of achieving them are mostly counter to both the stated goals and the intent o
A circle rover does un-natural things that involve mostly working the other rovers in tow. They might bother working a few other stations, but mostly it is more trouble than it is worth. I take it yo
Sure - if you are trying to compete against the other rovers you are dancing with. It seems strange that you are competiting against people that you have made these kinds of arrangements with. It wou
I wish I had access to all the comments filed by everyone in response to the ARRL's request. I don't, but I have been able to find replies from 91 hams so far in the areas of the net I can access. Mo
The June ARRL VHF Contest rules were posted on the ARRL's website this morning. No major changes from last year... _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontes