[VHFcontesting] Preventing grid circling

[Bob K0NR]

--- "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker at cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 04:21:59PM -0800, Bob K0NR wrote:
> > What if the anti-grid-circling rule included some kind of time
> limit
> > but one that only applies to rover-to-rover contacts. For example,
> > using Dan's "can't re-enter the same grid for one hour" rule, we'd
> > modify that to be "can't re-enter the same grid and work a
> > previously-worked rover station for one hour". This needs some
> thought
> > and wordsmithing but the basic idea is to only delay (not disallow)
> > QSOs that meet these criteria:
> >   - you've re-entered a grid that you've operated from before
> >   - only rover-to-rover contacts
> >   - only rovers that you've worked before (when they were
> presumably in
> > another grid)
> > 
> > A little complicated but perhaps workable. 
> 
> As a practical matter, this would be VERY complicated.  For one
> thing, this restriction is not symmetrical - rover A might be 
> restricted from working rover B, but because rover B has been 
> behaving differently, rover
> B is not restricted from working rover A.  This leads to rover B
> calling rover A and being told "sorry, I can't QSO with you." 
> This would cause a lot of confusion, especially if the communications
> path between rover A  and B is pretty marginal.
> 
  Ken,
  Good point. I knew it was complicated but I missed the asymmetry...
  A rover would need to know what the other rover had done in terms
  of grid movement to determine if an additional QSO would be
  valid, which is problematic.

  73,
  Bob K0NR


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