Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 04:28:58 -0700 (PDT)
The problem: Grids as multipliers (if you don't have 'em, you can't circle 'em) and human nature to exploit vulnerabilities to personal advantage. The playing field is *not* level and the rules revea
Hi Ev, I can see your point but eliminating grid squares at this time might be more problem than it's worth. I think the idea was a good one to start with. If you live in New England, it's easy to ge
I think we need to decide what problem we are trying to solve. If we are just trying to eliminate the grid circling behavior, there is a very easy rule that I can think of to do this. It also would
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 20:29:53 -0700 (PDT)
of to do this. It scored. Even with the best of intention, this simply masks the real issue... Amateur Radiosport sponsors have unwittingly placed equal importance on logging stations and grids. One
We're trying to fix a problem here that only a few people are creating. I like to operate QRP portable. I can't put up huge multi-stacks of beams with big amps at home. I can make up for it with a hi
Exactly. No need to change anything. Bzzt - you are making it too complicated. The simple rule will solve the problem and no more words are needed. Only 3 people would as far as I can tell - since i
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 04:30:32 -0700 (PDT)
True, Zack...but (as is the case with so many of these sorts of things) the behavior of a few seem to consume the emotions of the many. The choice that the radio sporting sponsorship community has t
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 04:39:19 -0700 (PDT)
Then one of two things must happen: 1. Existing rules must be enforced. The ARRL rules are plain as to the goal of their contests. Submitted operation that runs contrary to those goals should be rele
Agreed but then that's why I would support a seperate category for those who want to operated this way to seperate them from the rovers who are trying to work everyone they can, not just those they K
Some people might say that the root cause is the existence of the contest itself, just as it was the existence of the DXCC program that caused people like Don Miller and Romeo Stepanenko to misbehave
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 05:57:51 -0700
Actually, almost every contest I know of is based not on "making contact with the most number of different stations over the greatest distances possible" but instead on the principle of "making conta
Hello Zack, There is already an ARRL contest that has all of this. Its the 10GHz contest. You exchange 6 digit grid coordinates, scoring is by distance, you have to be at least 1 km from other statio
Hi Erich, Yep, I plan on being active at least one weekend of the 10+ GHz contest and hopefully both weekends. I've been choosing sites in the Chicago area. Some people will be on both shores of Lake
Sorry - I should point out that we are pretty much in agreement about the criteria. I just don't want someone spending a lot of time figuring out what the formula should be ahead of time and trying
Can we please get back to the really important topic of captive rovers now?? Seriously, I wouldn't want to distract the participants of this Grid Circling discussion.......... As one who has been on