[VHFcontesting] A Brief History of (Captive) Roving

[Greg Mills]

Okay, I have to admit... y'all can let the air out of my tires, clobber
my front ends, and bend my yagis into pretzels.

That was ME on Watchusett, I think? I told the guy a few minutes, as I
had a schedule I was on for a little while. Well... I then put 40 Watts
of 3 1/2 GHz RF into the front end of my 3 and 5 Gig transverters (and 2
was deaf for some other reason). Sorry, but I wasn't in much of a mood
to play radio while trying to figure out why I couldn't hear anything.

Greg Mills
K2LDT



-----Original Message-----
From: vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ev Tupis
(W2EV)
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 10:27 PM
To: VHFcontesting at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] A Brief History of (Captive) Roving

Dave Wendling wrote:
> 
> >    NOTE: Not to the exclusion of others...but with a special effort
to
> >          make sure the multi-op that Elmered them got taken care of.
> 
> Hey Ev,
> 
> We are not talking about the vast majority of Rovers here.

Then this supports the idea that the "problem" (if there is one) of
"captive
rovers" (if they actually exist) is miniscule, and inconsequential to
the
overall outcome of an event.  Hardly worthy of legislating against.

Ev

PS...I'd have been torked had a rover next to me refused to work me,
too.  That
kind of ungentlemanly response would have at least assured that I stuck
around
to call CQ within 10-KHz of their working frequency until they knuckled
under.
:))

Of course I'm kidding...right?  hehehehe

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