[VHFcontesting] captive rovers=red herring

[Robert McGwier]

The ARRL and its committees are not unlike the FCC these days.
Lawyers rule everything.  The League is desperate to get out
of band plans for fear of being sued by some itinerant repeater
association and how far behind can the contest rules be?

While my read of motivations may be too strong, I suspect operationally,
you will find it little different from thinking it to be true.
This committee will be reluctant to act where there is not at least
some attempt made at consensus by the VHF contesting/award hunting
community.

I am doing roving and building up as the way to get into the higher
bands and get early feedback. I remain completely unaffiliated with
any contest station.  I spend a few dollars per contest to add a
piece of equipment and this same equipment I make sure can be
used at home.  It will take me a while to build up a complete
station for all but time with my roving partner spent on getting
ready and tinkering is as much fun (and in some bad contest environments
more fun) as operating.  I like having the freedom to choose when and
where I will operate that comes from being unaffiliated.

Bob
N4HY


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Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 16:55
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Subject: [VHFcontesting] captive rovers=red herring


Tree wrote:
"I took some personal risk and threw
out a piece of data to make it clear that the data might not be so
hypothetical when it became clear that many people didn't believe this
was going on.  I am doing all of this because I believe this is something
we should all be aware of, and should each decide if this is something
we are comfortable with or not.  I believe that if we come to the
consensus that this is a problem, peer pressure will do more to resolve
the situation than any action the ARRL or CQ could take.  "

That being the case, is this something that should be discussed on this
reflector or should the ARRL CAC handle this?  I remember an incident years
ago when a multi-op had a huge number of FM simplex contacts that turned
ugly on the internet and the control op apparently never even knew the
situation existed.

Jim N3AWS
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