well the club page is interesting and if you guys are sending out
sattilites to activate apparently vacant grids then thats good. I just
encourage you to work everyone, thats all.
> [Original Message]
> From: Tim Ertl (KE3HT) <ke3ht@ke3ht.org>
> To: Vhfcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
> Date: 8/18/2005 6:22:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Captivated circling rovers 10%!
>
> Frank has defined captive as 10% of my score, another said 10% of qso's
with
> one station(see below). Most of the comments I have received about my
> previous post seemed to feel that I was not captive. I even made my logs
> available to everyone. In June 10% of 210 QSO's is 21 QSO's. I would be
> required to not make more than 21 QSO's with any single station or be
> accused of being captive. If the ARRL makes a rule that says a rover with
> over 10% is captive and becomes a checklog or something like that then who
> is going to want to QSO with me? Check out my June 2005 log posted for
> everyone to see. You will see that I am a captive rover of W2SZ just
because
> they are a loud easy station to work. I didn't even work them from all
> grids. In other contests you would see me as captive to other stations
like
> N2PA AND W2SZ at the same time.
>
> Like I said in my first post, I can be considered captive at least by
k3uhf.
> 10% was also mentioned on this list last February during the review of the
> ARRL contest committee suggestions. I am worried because many of the loud
> minority seem to think I am captive because I want to do distances.
>
> Tim
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:15:58 -0700
> From: "frank bechdoldt" <k3uhf@earthlink.net>
> <snip>
> I urge all those who still care and might be able to do something about
> this to ask the Arrl to allow a maximum of 10% of a stations points to
come
> from another station. In this case these 2 could of picked the qsos where
> they get unique multipliers thus to not punish them for being in the
middle
> of nowhere. And the group of captivated circling rovers would have to grow
> to the size of 10.
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>
>
> Tim
>
> Tim Ertl KE3HT/r
> QSL via CBA
> http://www.ke3ht.org/rover
> ke3ht@ke3ht.org
>
>
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