[VHFcontesting] Rover Squared

W0eea at aol.com W0eea at aol.com
Tue Jul 29 22:13:01 EDT 2003


Hello All,

The term is 'rover squared.'  In practice two rovers work each other on all 
their common bands from and to each of the grids at a four corners location.  

If they then drive to another four corners (four new grids) and do it all 
again they could under the original rover rules amass a very large score.  So 
large in fact that the ARRL changed the rover rules because it was done.  Two 
full four corners and radios to 24 GHz put each vehicle near a million points 
under the old rules.  

I used to rove regularly,  but since they changed the rules I've only 
seriously roved once,  and that was because I had to drive the rover vehicle from 
Illinois to Colorado,  when I moved,  and June was an oppurtune time to do it.

73,

Jim
w0eea at aol.com


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