[VHFcontesting] One "Idiot's" Reply - The Real WTX Story

[Paul Kiesel]

As far as I'm concerned, these guys did nothing
unsportsmanlike. They took advantage of the rules as
they are written.

The ARRL needs to effectively address the grid
circling matter in a fair way, but soon.

K7CW

--- "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker at kenharker.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:51:07AM -0400,
> N6MU1 at aol.com wrote:
> > 
> > The only way midwest or west coast rovers can be
> competitive nationally 
> > is to join forces.  WTX is the best area of the
> country where multiple 
> > convergences are readily available close to major
> highways.  I don't 
> > understand the objection to grid circling when
> there is literally no 
> > one else to work. Also, where I go to operate is
> solely my choice.
> 
> Here is why grid circling sucks.
> 
> In order to effectively grid circle, multiple rover
> stations must be 
> operating in a highly coordinated manner.  It does
> not happen by accident.
> The complexity and coordination of the scheduling
> involved probably exceeds 
> the level of planning most multi-operator station
> put into scheduling their
> operators.  The point is, it is obvious that
> grid-cirlcing rovers are really
> operating ONE contest operation with MULTIPLE
> stations and callsigns.  When
> two, three, or four rovers coordinate in the way
> that you have recently 
> been doing, it is not two, three, or four separate
> contest operations - it 
> is one planned and executed operation that involves
> two, three, or four 
> callsigns, mostly just making QSOs with itself.
> 
> Just as single operator contest efforts are not made
> to compete with 
> multioperator contest efforts, single-station
> contest efforts should not
> be expected to compete against multi-station contest
> efforts, and nobody 
> should be competing against a contest effort that
> can manufacture an 
> arbitrary number of QSOs with itself.
> 
> > This "idiot" is proud to be part of the group that
> raised the roving 
> > bar this year. If you think designing and building
> multiple reliable 
> > and portable ten-band rover stations including
> antennas isn't 
> > technically challenging, try it. 
> 
> Just because some technical achievement is
> challenging, does not mean that
> your use of that technical achievement demonstrates
> good sportsmanship.
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
> kenharker at kenharker.com
> http://www.kenharker.com/
> 
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