[VHFcontesting] Re: [Rover] Stupid Categories [was:Are you ready for the January SS??]

[Dave Wendling]

Hi Ev,
I have this funny feeling you are right as usual. We need to hang on to everything we have. So I won't argue the point further. I would like to win that 4 band category though! (grin). I'm thinking of starting my own division next year for the January contest. My wife and I will be taking a Florida vacation about that time. So I was thinking of something between the Canon ball run and the Idida-Rover down the East coast. We want to set some kind of Grid record. I think we could activate at least 30, maybe more. What is the record anyway?

Dave Wendling
kb1eaa at berkshire.rr.com
Home of Palm Rover Software
http:/www.home.nycap.rr.com/nugidoors/

"Ev Tupis (W2EV)" <w2ev at arrl.net> wrote:
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>Dave Wendling wrote:
>> 
>> It all depends on your outlook Ev, for me contesting is the competition. 
>> I do not have the time or cash to design a 10 band rover station. Since 
>> competion means winning. I will never meet this goal with the equipment 
>> I have.
>
>Hi Dave,
>I think you are selling yourself short.  You are one of the most driven (pun, I
>know) rover advocates that I know.  Surely you realize that -- just like our
>counterparts in Track and Field, it takes time to condition (both biologically
>and technically) and train before we can hope to be recognized as the best in
>our field.
>
>You can't throw in the towel...it's too deeply woven in your fabric.  In fact,
>you saw a way to be even *more* efficient and developed Palm-based logging
>software.  Those that use it see their scores increase simply from being more
>efficient at logging.
>
>I'm simply saying that we should be careful what we ask for.  Our bands are
>constantly under attack from the outside.  Asking the ARRL to make it even more
>advantageous for us to submit logs that reference fewer bands-used will
>trade-off our future for some undefinable level of present-satisfaction.
>
>Ev, W2EV
>-- 
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>
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