What is a captive rover? I gather this from discussion on this list: I schedule ahead of the contest with only two or three stations. My June logs (available on my web site) will show that I mainly w
HI, Tim, I think that you are a great rover and greatly appreciate the favor you do for all of us in the VHF and up community with your hard work and great roving skills! I think it is a tiny very vo
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 04:19:38 -0700 (PDT)
Tim, your operation is "what it's all about" for the 90% of the participants who won't submit scores in the "Top 10 percent". :) We find things about the contest that keep us coming back. You have...
Tim, Just keep doing what you are doing and don't let the vocal minority have any impact on your contesting enjoyment. Jim, AF6O Tell me, what should I do? Already one Rover has put his Rover up for
I am getting very tired of this discussion too, but I'm tired of the lack of understanding of and continued denial of what the problem is. The problem is that these captive rovers are in fact part of
To help out us dummies that aren't as bright as you are please name a couple of these captive rovers that fit your understanding so that we may better grasp "what the problem is". Jim, AF6O _________
Primarily for Tim, I second what Jim and Ev have written. You are NOT a captive rover...the 'captivated' adjective (which I think Ev coined) fits you much better. AND...if you are having FUN...then k
I have nothing against Rovers whatsoever. I say "Welcome and go to it no matter what your strategy". I'll always try to work you if I can hear you. If I call and you don't answer, I can only assume y
And I am a captivated contester, as most of us are. (Couldn't resist!) Maybe that's why I'm a captivated contester. :-) 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mai
That's almost me. I can't get through to hardly anybody else, so I make sure I talk to a super contest station. My other option is to make QSOs with a super rover who can find me AND who has a micro
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:35:40 -0700
If captive rovers are "mythical" then explain why the ARRL's recent Ad-Hoc VHF/UHF Study Committee was tasked with (among other things) "Strengthen the rules to minimize the rover practices known as
An important point - most, if not all, of the rovers who are on microwave are also on VHF. In most places in the country, it is pretty easy to work a handful of stations on 144.200 with a modest set
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
In response to KD3NC (a past operator at W2SZ): First, you don't know me. I am neither lazy, nor a whiner. My motivation is to seek to get the rules changed to correctly address the issues at hand -
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
operators or crew. < Dave, My noting of your association with W2SZ was not to imply that you represented them, but rather to show that you are biased in this discussion. If you choose to continue to
Author: Radiosporting Fan <radiosporting@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:12:33 -0700 (PDT)
-- "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com> wrote: After quoting most of this: http://www.yccc.org/Articles/VHF_UHF.pdf What is mythical is that their operation is somehow against the rules. No
Tim Ertl (KE3HT) wrote: What is a captive rover? I gather this from discussion on this list: I schedule ahead of the contest with only two or three stations. My June logs (available on my web site) w
Unlesr the tax rules change lets celibrate the rich's ackomplishments of finding or making loopholes too. _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@cont
Sir, and others of your unfortunate opinions, It would be appreciated if you would stop badmouthing W2SZ. It is perhaps worth mentioning, for those who may not know, that W2SZ is a callsign granted t