[VHFcontesting] Rover Circling Solution [was: ARRL VHF+ contest proposal...

[John K9IJ]

At 08:43 PM 2/20/2004 -0500, Ev Tupis wrote:
>Jimk8mr at aol.com wrote:
>
>>Stupid idea.
>>
>>What's wrong if I drive down the freeway a few hundred miles, maybe stop 
>>and do something else, then drive back the same route?   So I can't work 
>>guys on the way home?
>>
>>
>>73   -   Jim   K8MR
>
>How can you start out by saying "Stupid idea." and end up with "Best 
>Wishes"? :)
>
>Even so...that is exactly correct.  (by the way...this goes to show just 
>how elegantly simple this rule is...folks 'get it' immediately)  You can't 
>work guys on the way home *if* you activated a new grid in the mean 
>time.  It encourages folks to adapt a strategy of "working as many other 
>people as possible" while they are in a particular grid (hitting two birds 
>with one stone).  Rovers are therefore encouraged to do a better job of 
>working everyone they can while they are in a particular grid.
>
>It's win-win.

Nope. It's lose lose


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