Hi all, The stated purpose of banning captive rovers is to curtail unsportsmanlike conduct. The unstated purpose of banning captive rovers is to make some existing big gun stations more competitive,
Hi all, The most urgent problem with the proposed captive rover prohibition is that there is no published, objective standard for rover behavior. This means that any rover contacts are subject to the
Hi all, If captive rovers are so "easily identified," then why hasn't the league put forth its method? One key requirement of a law is that it sets a standard that a person can reasonably understand.
Hi all, This is an excellent post. It is worth noting that the current system does, of course, provide crude distance-based scoring. The number of grids available varies with r squared, where r is th
Oh by the way... It should be pointed out that scoring six-digit grids will all but kill off random FM QSQSOsrom bystanders (who often don't know their four digit grid). And it will require live GPGP
Post for Jim N1SZ... -- Maybe the paranoia of Mark Hoffman is contagious. maybe not... take it for what it is worth... In doing some research, I stumbled across these statements in the PVRC newslette