In a message dated 7/29/2008 10:25:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
JamesDuffey@comcast.net writes:
These are my thoughts. They have focused on increasing activity, not
leveling the playing field. Others? - Duffey
As gagging as most of this discussion has been, I will use this opening to
mention one rover issue of concern in the ARRL contests:
2.3.6. <snip>... Rovers submitting a score for inclusion in a club
competition must also include a secondary summary sheet indicating the portion
of the score that counts for the club score if any of the QSOs submitted take
place outside of their club's territory.
I don't know if this is really observed. It is necessarily verifiable from
log information. Where in a particular grid square are you when you make a
qso? On which side of a club boundary line? Only an honor system will work.
If the rule is adhered to, it discourages a lot of potential locations. In
my case, as a member of the Mad River Radio Club which is centered in
northwest Ohio, I can go only about 50 miles further east before I'm out of the
club
territory. Should I bother to go to FN01 or FM09 or EN92 if those qsos
won't count toward a club total? Do I want to bother with the paperwork to
figure
out two separate scores?
Likewise, do rovers from the Potomac Valley Radio Club make a point to stop
somewhere in FM09, and not head further west to EM99 or EM88? It sure would
be nice for us here in northeast Ohio to have some activity out in the
western Alleghenies, but if they have to account for a club boundary, I can
imagine
there is not much incentive to venture out this way.
OK, the rule has a basis with fixed stations. A fixed station is either
inside a club circle, or it isn't. That is simple. But a rover can readily be
both.
So let rovers go wherever they want, generate as much activity as they can,
and count it all for a club total. Don't make them divide up logs into
eligible and non-eligible (for club competition) qsos or multipliers.
73 - Jim K8MR in EN91
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