[VHFcontesting] Rover Squared

[Mark]

This thread should be changed to Wah, Wah, Wah  :(

If you made 500 Q's under the old rules in 1992, the same 500 Q's are 
possible under the rules in 2003. So what if the scoring is different? 
There is nothing in the rules which reduces the number of contacts you can 
make. The only thing which reduces the number of contacts you can make is 
how long you sit here and type your excuses and crabbing instead of being 
productive with your time.  STOP COMPLAINING and go out and recruit people 
to get on the air or make your station better. DO BOTH!!!!  All this crap 
about scoring changes and captive rovers is a bunch of whining!

If you have to go out and work a four corner intersection with 3 other 
rovers to win or be competitive in a contest, so be it. This activity will 
surely excite some locals and may even get them to rove in one of the 
contests.  Gird dancing has been going on for years. Back in the mid 90's, 
there were some 1.3 million scores put up. While I cannot confirm this, I 
would bet that there was some dancing going on and good for them!

We went out in January 03 and beat the division record (set under the 
precious old rules) by 100K. It can be done... work at it! BTW... we had 5 
rovers total in that area on Sat night. It was quite a sight and some of 
the FM only new hams came down to check it out. Guess what, they 
participated in the June contest on their own!  MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Go out and captive rover, grid dance, rover square, work a FM talkie with 
your neighbor... WHATEVER.... Just get on the air and work people!  One Q 
from a "grid dancer" or "captive" is better than 0 Q's from someone who 
can't get off their email reflector postings!



Mark
N9UM







At 08:55 PM 7/29/2003 -0500, John K9IJ wrote:
>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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