[VHFcontesting] Re: captive rovers

[dpease at adams.net]

My limited experience here in the "Black Hole" (even worse in VHF test) with 
rovers is limited, but all I have heard on are not "captive" and many times 
provide the only contact in several grids on many bands.  I am thankful to 
have them out there.

Danny  NG9R 


Zack Widup writes: 

> When Jim was in Illinois he was one of the rovers that always tried to
> work as many different people as possible.  The other rovers in this area
> do also, as far as I know.  Some are just hard to work when you're using
> horizontal loops or other marginal antennas. I'm sure they would LOVE to
> work everyone they could, but can't always make it due to conditions, etc. 
> 
> As for the South Pole example, how does it fit into the rules when you're
> parked on 5 grid squares at once?  :-] 
> 
> 73, Zack W9SZ 
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 W0eea at aol.com wrote: 
> 
>> 
>> You write a new rule based upon an arbitrary percentage of the contacts in 
>> the rover's log that can be made with any one station.  To me that is 49%.  If 
>> half or more of the contacts in a rover's log are with one station he isn't 
>> trying hard enough to work other people.   
>> 
>> (Yes I understand it could still be abused unless the rule was written and 
>> applied on a QSOs per band basis.) 
>> 
>> (BTW such a rule would also have prevented abuse of rover squared type 
>> operation - the rules wouldn't have had to be rewritten - but that's another 
>> argument completely. ) 
>> 
>> 73, 
>> 
>> Jim 
>> w0eea at aol.com
> 
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