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Re: [VHFcontesting] Rover Circling Solution [was: ARRL VHF+contestpropo

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Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Rover Circling Solution [was: ARRL VHF+contestproposal...
From: Ev Tupis <w2ev@arrl.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:04:19 -0500
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"Once operation has ceased, the same grid may not be re-activated by the
same moving station in the same contest.  Operation in a previous grid
is considered 'ceased' as soon as a single contact is made from a new
grid."
No ambiguity.  Easily understood.  Easily policed.

What's wrong if I drive down the freeway a few hundred miles, maybe stop
and do something else, then drive back the same route? So I can't
>work guys on the way home?

Ron Hooper (W4WA) wrote:
> Applying a reasonable time limit before returning to the same grid
> would make grid circling difficult and still allow Jim's scenario to
> work as well.

Absolutly true, Ron...and something that I would support. Maybe "reasonable" is 8-hours? The casual rover (as I think Jim is describing above) could work with that while severely limiting the Grid Circling activity that most of us abhor.

I would still be curious to know if Jim's scenario was actual or theoretical. If actual, how many people fit that model? My guess is that few, if any at all, do.

The folks that did fit it would simply need to adopt practices that allowed them to still contact as many people as possible within the new framework. Contesters will find a way to succeed. :)

Ev, W2EV


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