This past weekend while roving through New England we worked a multiop station on 2M and asked to be passed to the microwaves (which would have been an easy 5 minute run through 6 bands). The respons
John, That is disheartening indeed. But you are wrong when you say there is no motivation to work rovers except when they are in a rare grid. Most rovers have good bandswitching dexterity and know ho
Hi John, Any operator that says they don't want to make 6 microwave contacts because it's not a new grid DOESN'T UNDERSTAND HOW IT WORKS!!! 22 qso points x whatever the grid total is at the end of th
Seems pretty short sighted to pass up easy QSOs. Multipliers are sexy but QSOs win contests. 73, Mike K9NW This e-mail transmission contains information that is intended to be confidential and privi
The same situation also exists for rovers. For example, I might rove near a fixed station and work him on all bands while I'm close and get that grid on those bands. Later, if I am 300 miles away, al
Hi John, It's sad, but it happens. It happened to me in both of the grids I made it to this past contest, with the same station. He was an easy contact on 2m, but when I asked for other bands he told
I agree with all of this, and we make the same kinds of decisions. If I'm trying to work a guy up the bands and we lose each other or a pass gets missed I'll move on the the next one and try and fill
Author: David Schumacher <dreamcatcher_two@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:38:59 -0700 (PDT)
Not being an experienced rover, but having done some contesting in my day the first thing that comes to my mind is that the op who wanted to check and see if it was a new grid could have confirmed an
**snip** The same situation also exists for rovers. For example, I might rove near a fixed station and work him on all bands while I'm close and get that grid on those bands. Later, if I am 300 miles
Following up on K2DRH's comments. As a six band rover in normal propagation distance from K2DRH, WB9Z, N2BJ and other world class midwestern VHF+ contesters I have never been passed over by any of th
John W1RT, In regards to a certain multi-op not working you on the microwave bands during the last VHF contest, you aren't doing yourself any favors by moving back here and saying '"some" New England
Having just been freshly flamed by a couple of guys i consider to be my friends, i might almost side with you. For about half a millisecond! But by then hopefully the brain kicks in, looks at the big
Honest Question after reading DL DAAVE's comments Whats your callsign and how do you know so much about this? Would have been nice if you validated your comments with a callsign Mike KA2AEV In a mess
I think it's important that the list know this is no "ordinary" list troll. Whoever it is, they used the Tor proxy anonymizer/onion-router network (http://tor.eff.org) as a method of hiding who they
[snip] I really had to wonder about that. The person starts out saying we need to name names or give callsigns in the case of someone violating the rules or being unsportsmanlike, goes off into this
I heartily second this suggestion! I just signed up for this list and this was one of the first postings I received; review of the objected-to item tells me, as an attorney, that an actionable case
You know, standing up and not hiding under the cover of a tor site would have lent at least a little credibility to your statements. Me, I'm still a relative newcommer to VHF contesting and am coming
Well Steve, I wasn't going to comment further in this thread .. but what the heck? I started the snowball, after all :) Fact is, while the root email in this thread establishes a new low in terms of
Just as an interesting side-note for us network technology buffs... sorry if it's a bit OT for the VHF list, but I'm sure folks here are into this stuff, at least some of us... SANS is reporting this