[VHFcontesting] captive rovers = Red Herring

[John K9IJ]

At 01:15 PM 7/30/2003 -0500, Tree wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:28:47PM -0400, Hoffman, Mark wrote:
>
> > But - I don't believe the issue is GLOBAL. Nor is it as rampant as some
> > would wish to paint it.
>
>Agree.  This is a pretty small number or rovers, but not an insignificant
>number of QSOs are being made by them.
>
> > More simply, I think ANYONE who goes out to play VHF+ radio rover should be
> > given much more respect. They take their stuff on the road, whilst we 
> suffer
> > either in homes or fixed positions. They deal with the smokies, weather
> > (often it sucks), wear-and-tear on their vehicles, gas, food on the
> > road...stuff that sitting in my shack I don't even NEED to know about. 
> All I
> > know, is if I call CQ and a /R calls - I'm very happy to hear them.
>
>I think the distinction I am making is that a rover that is partially (or 
>fully)
>enabled by a multi-multi, and only works that multi-multi - is a different
>case than rovers in general.  Most rovers in general, behave in a way to make
>as many QSOs as they can - with the intent to have fun and/or make as high of
>a score as they can.  Captive rovers only help a speciic station win.
>
> > They should be allowed to play in the community sandbox. If they snub 
> enough
> > people, they just will be sitting alone in the end, wondering why NOBODY
> > cares about them. And the hope is, enough shame and they either retire or
> > stop doing it. That, my friends, is the best we can hope for.
>
>Their motivation is the winning effort.  They don't submit their log.  Most
>people don't even know who they are (since they don't work other stations).

That would leave a lot of question in 'my' mind as to whether they were really
out there at all. Or were they just 'creative' logging ?


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