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

[Ev Tupis]

>>"Once operation has ceased, the same grid may not be re-activated by the
>>same moving station in the same contest.  Operation in a previous grid
>>is considered 'ceased' as soon as a single contact is made from a new
>>grid."
>>No ambiguity.  Easily understood.  Easily policed.

>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?

Ron Hooper (W4WA) wrote:
 > Applying a reasonable time limit before returning to the same grid
 > would make grid circling difficult and still allow Jim's scenario to
 > work as well.

Absolutly true, Ron...and something that I would support.  Maybe 
"reasonable" is 8-hours?  The casual rover (as I think Jim is describing 
above) could work with that while severely limiting the Grid Circling 
activity that most of us abhor.

I would still be curious to know if Jim's scenario was actual or 
theoretical.  If actual, how many people fit that model?  My guess is 
that few, if any at all, do.

The folks that did fit it would simply need to adopt practices that 
allowed them to still contact as many people as possible within the new 
framework.  Contesters will find a way to succeed. :)

Ev, W2EV