I am glad you enjoy roving. Yes, the captive ones are in the minority, but as the K5TR example showed, it doesn't take a lot of them to have a major impact to a score. They do exist. I have seen sev
I think the take away from George's analysis is to fully understand what the impact of rovers is - and thus understand why major operations are interested in enabling them. I certainly learned someth
I am not asking for anyone to remove uniques. I don't believe that multi-multi's are ordering rovers to only work them. What I do believe is that some rovers end up not working anyone else for whatev
Agree. This is a pretty small number or rovers, but not an insignificant number of QSOs are being made by them. I think the distinction I am making is that a rover that is partially (or fully) enable
I vote for #2. How about an open letter from some of the big gun VHF contest stations that says: "We have a policy of encouring our enabled rovers to work as many stations as they can - not just us"
Glad to see something from CN land. K7RAT will try to be active for a few hours. Also, I have left my station in beacon mode on 432.130 if anyone needs a signal to verify their setup. 73 Tree
I have seen some references to "activity hours" for 432 in the VHF contests. I was wondering how widespread this concept extends? During the June VHF contest, I was surprised to work 45 stations on 4
Seems like you would want to do all of this real time instead of off line. What functionality is missing from the industry standard logging programs? Tree
Nice list of planned efforts. I guess if I knew what time to turn on the radio (for those activity periods) and if there were actually some signals on the band, I would work some people. However, I a
Interesting question. When was the ruling on the eme QSO made? I guess instead of asking what the ARRL thinks (which is better answered by making a phone call), I would be interested in knowing what
No. That is not what this means. What this means is that you can't pick up your telephone during a contest and call you your friend in a grid you need and ask him to get on the air. If you are in th
I don't think that is the issue at all. It really gets down to the "real time human decoding" issue. Anyone can cheat with the internet if they really wanted to. I would think that the HSCW and WSJT
How about if we count CW on six meters as another band? The serious guys can all go down there and make more QSOs - and the casual guys can just work phone. Puts more strategy into the SSB/CW balanc
Thanks for the input Ken. I would also like to add that I too will be on in the contest - trying to work more stations than my competition. I will be on frequencies between 50 MHz and 435 MHz throug
Furthurmore - the older Yaesu's didn't have a command set that would really enable support from a logging program. I will check, but I believe the 736r only allows control from the port and has not
I guess I don't understand what the difference is between making skeds during the contest using non-amateur means, and making them before the contest using non-amateur means. To me, the contest star
Totally agree Frank. However, I would like to point out that using cluster information puts you in a different category in HF contests. Using skeds on VHF doesn't. Tree
Well - as you have demonstrated, people that have this happen (for whatever reason), will be talked about after the contest. The specific case you cite is interesting as the person who owns the stat