Hi,
I just read some interesting comments from a ham out East who
is going to give up roving because there are too many fixed
stations on the air from formerly rare grids and too many
rovers now operating out there. He should move to Colorado.
Within 2 grids (adjacent grids to DM79 and those touching
adjacent grids to DM79) there were several grids that have
been activated in the past by rovers that were not activated
in the September contest. Of the active grids, DN80, DM89,
DM88, DM87, DM77, and EM08 were worked here in September
only because of rovers. DM99 was not worked in Sept but
was worked in June only because of a rover. DN90 has only
been worked from W0EEA once (Sept 2000 only on 2M) and begs
for a rover.
As can be seen from the above, in the Denver area rovers are
essential to VHF and up contesting. The only way over half
of the local map is active in any given contest is if rovers
are there to activate those areas. The other obvious point
to be made is that rovers here need lots of gain and good
locations to make up for the vast changes in elevation from
the front range to many of the locations mentioned above.
DN80 and DM87 are grids that fall off the edges of the local
map, DM87, DM97, and DN90 more so. Rovers activating such
grids face difficult challanges to work even adjacent grids
let alone DX.
My thanks to those who have risen to these challenges and
roved here in the Denver area in the past. If you want to
try some real old time roving in the future, come to
Denver. We'll be listening for you.
73,
Jim
w0eea@w0eea.com
www.w0eea.com
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