[VHFcontesting] Sept contest results

[K3uhf at aol.com]

Hi

My point was is for the most part they only worked each other.  The 2nd guy 
feeding off the 1st.  The 2nd guy had only 8 look ups on qrz.com.  After a 
contest my lookups go up 20 or 30 in a weekend.  That's based on 400 qsos.  My 
point is if they are in rare grids people look them up and people send qsl cards. 
 It happens to me every contest. 

These are the same guys that worked each other 98% of the time in a group of 
4 while traveling across the plain sates. They whittled themselves down to 2 
and that's why their score is a quarter million instead of 1.25 million. If 
they all follow the same route there score will go up by linearly instead of 
exponentially because they all use the same grids for contacts.  I doubt if people 
in north Texas heard them, Texas is big.  

They are probably down to two guys after they had 4 before because of one 
reason.  You see they worked each other for 98% of their score.  One of them was 
sneaking off and making a qso or four on the calling frequency so he would 
beat the other guys in the roving pack.  Those extra 4 qsos gave one of them a 
60,000 point bonus where they should have all turned in the same score.  In a 
rover pack someone has to be the lead dog. You see they were captive to 
eachother racing from corner to corner throughout the desert southwest from Elpaso to 
LA.

Anyway it was just an observation to spur discussion.  I'm glad to see there 
are only 2 guys doing it now instead of four.  We had a group of 4 up here 
doing it too, but they were band limited and the roads are not as straight as 
down there, thus limiting their number of good corners to go to.  

Don't get me wrong if you randomly run into another rover and someone is near 
a grid line, work them again and again. However don't follow them down the 
interstate for the entire contest! Think of all the ham gear wasted if you get 
into a pileup accident!

k3uhf