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[VHFcontesting] Rover or Single Op LP catagory?

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Subject: [VHFcontesting] Rover or Single Op LP catagory?
From: k9ij@vx5.com (John K9IJ)
Date: Sun Aug 3 17:53:29 2003
At 05:36 PM 8/3/2003 -0400, Andrew T. Flowers, K0SM wrote:
>Wait a minute--I think you need to stay within a 300m circle (or whatever 
>it is in the rules) to send in one SO log.  I don't see anything wrong 
>with being a rover that only roved in one grid.  If you were out driving 
>around this is what it sounds like.  Hope you had fun!

The ARRL contest rules define rover:

2.3. Rover: One or two operators of a single station that moves among two 
or more grid squares during the course of a contest.

ref: http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/rules-vhf.html


>Andy K0SM/2
>
>John K9IJ wrote:
>
>>At 01:03 PM 8/3/2003 -0500, tad danley wrote:
>>
>>>I operated in the ARRL UHF contest this weekend to check out my Par 
>>>omniangle horizontal antennas.  I was mobile and all of my operation 
>>>took place from within one grid - does that make me a Rover, or does the 
>>>fact that all my operation was from EM13 (my home grid) make me a single op?
>>
>>
>>Not a Rover. You have to operate from two or more grids to classify as a 
>>rover.

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