[VHFcontesting] Pack Rovers meet ARRL contest objectives

[Buck - N4PGW]

Ah, thank you.

Buck
N4PGW


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth E. Harker [mailto:kenharker at kenharker.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 12:18 PM
> To: Buck - N4PGW
> Cc: 'VHF Contesting e-Mail List'
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Pack Rovers meet ARRL contest objectives
> 
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:41:33AM -0400, Buck - N4PGW wrote:
> > I have been seeing this thread for quite some time, but I am not quite
> sure
> > I understand it as it relates to this controversy.  What is a 'captive'
> as
> > it relates to this thread?
> 
> A "captive rover" generally describes a rover whose activity in the
> contest
> is exclusively intended to benefit a particular fixed station.  The rover
> may be using equipment partially or entirely supplied by the fixed
> station,
> is on a schedule to be at certain locations at certain times to make QSOs
> on certain bands, and is expected to make contacts with other stations if
> and only if it has time between making contacts with the mother ship it is
> intended to help.  The equipment the captive rovers use might be very low
> power - capable of making contact with the mother ship but not much
> further -
> or operate on frequencies (such as 908 MHz) that nobody else uses, which
> further impedes their capability to make QSOs with other stations.
> 
> The combined efforts of these captive rovers are clearly not in the spirit
> of
> fair competition against other fixed stations, and a lot of us feel it
> should
> be banned as cheating.  So far, it has only poisoned the M/U class.
> 
> --
> Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
> kenharker at kenharker.com
> http://www.kenharker.com/
> 
> 
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