[VHFcontesting] Rover Squared

[John K9IJ]

At 09:13 PM 7/29/2003 -0400, W0eea at aol.com wrote:
>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.

This is also known as a 'grid dance'.


>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.

It still works, it's just not worth as many mults.


>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.

Why did the rules change cause you to stop roving ?  The point totals can't 
get as high,
but the playing field is still level and it's still just as much fun.

John - K9IJ


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