Bob: Precisely. Let us fix that. A station 'operator' is a licensed amateur who keys a station transmitter in amateur service. No one is asserting that captive rovers are main station ops (on, say 22
Bob: My position is my own and not at all representative of W2SZ's operators or crew. Clearly that was not the intent of your previous post, as you quoted the existing rules, to wit: "They violate th
Bob: Obviously this is an emotional topic for some people. And emotion impairs reason. Nothing in the rule, as written, says anything about "teams." That is your invention. On the one hand, since rov
Tree: I fail to see how. I have not seen SZ's logs, but let us hypothetically assert that your worst fears are true -- which I guess would be that there are 30 calls in SZ's microwave logs that do no
This proposal does not clearly define captive rover. Thus, the continuing controversy -- no one, it seems, can define captivity in a way that does not cut across someone's independent rover operatio
Captive: "held under control of another but having the appearance of independence; especially : owned or controlled by another concern and operated for its needs rather than for an open market <a cap
Buck: Sure. But the idea of not awarding QSO points in proportion to frequency (and thus difficulty) is inequitable. Why would anyone go for that? Regards - Dave KD3NC _______________________________