[VHFcontesting] Rover Squared

[on4kj]

Hey Rovers,

Never thought about Maritime Mobile Rovers ?
Or even Aeronautical Mobile ?
Space Rovers maybe next century...........

Jos


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark" <martho at ameritech.net>
To: <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 6:02 AM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Rover Squared


> 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
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> 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
> >
> >
> >-
> >
> >John Rice  K9IJ
> >k9ij at vx5.com
> >Webmaster, Network Admin, Janitor
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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