Rule 1.2 should be eliminated for other reasons.
A few days back the subject of improving VHF contest activity was discussed
here, including the suggestion of inviting other non-VHF active hams to
your QTH to show them what VHF contesting is all about. This is exactly
backwards: other non-VHF active hams should be inviting you, and maybe your
equipment, over to their stations (or you inviting yourself over) to show
them what can be done from their own stations. But this one-entry rule, along
with the one-transmitter/one-callsign rule, makes that impossible.
For many years I have operated the November CW SS from multiple stations,
submitting separate entries for each station. Nobody has ever complained
about having the chance to work me several times during the course of the
contest.
Also more than Rule 1.2 needs to be changed to give most rovers a home in
the VHF contest: the ARRL presently does not allow mobile operation in any
contests other than Field Day and VHF rovers. In their interpretation it
violates the rule about a station being within a 500 meter circle. (This rule
was instituted to prevent simultaneous operation from multiple locations
and to prevent remote receivers. It could be reasonably be interpreted to
require all equipment be within a 500 meter circle, but that circle could
move as with a moving vehicle.)
73 - Jim K8MR
In a message dated 9/20/2009 1:07:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jamesduffey@comcast.net writes:
2. Eliminate the rover category in the January Contest. Also,
eliminate rule 1.2 of General Rule for Contests above 50 MHz, "1.2
Individuals and stations are limited to one entry per contest." Let
stations and operators submit as many entries as they wish. In
addition to aligning VHF and HF contesting rules, this would allow
stations who previously operated as rovers to submit a log in each
grid they operate from in whatever category is appropriate: QRP
Portable, Single Op, Multi Op, or Limited Multi Op. Stations formerly
known as rovers could mix or match categories in the same contest.
Stations would be eligible for multiple awards according to their
entries. List entries by grids and make awards by grids.
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