[VHFcontesting] The Captive / Captivated Rover

[John Geiger]

And spend more time improving your antennas and feedlines, and less time on
the internet complaining about how others go roving.

73s John NE0P

Captive single-op low power


----- Original Message -----
From: "Radiosporting Fan" <radiosporting at yahoo.com>
To: "VHF Contesting e-Mail List" <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 9:52 PM
Subject: [VHFcontesting] The Captive / Captivated Rover


> I'm a Rover...
> --------------
> I want to work lots of stations on lots of bands in as
> many grids as I can find them FROM as many grids as I
> can get to.  Who should I target?  M/U's and other
> multiband Rovers.
>
> I'm a M/U...
> ------------
> I'm attempting to work as many stations in as many
> grids on as many bands as possible.  Who should I
> target?  Multiband Rovers who know where they're going
> and when they'll be there.  I'll even put up with less
> operator skill at first, knowing that I'll get
> 10-bands from that grid in this contest and win over
> an ally in future events as we feed each other's
> disease.
>
> I'm a non-Rover, non-M/U...
> ---------------------------
> ... with a couple of bands (probably worth only 1 or 2
> QSO-points each, by the way).  I can't find the Rovers
> and there are long stretches of time when I don't hear
> the M/U's calling CQ.  I ask myself, "How can they
> rack up all of those points, if I can't hear them
> doing it?"  I answer myself, "Because they're cheating
> me out of contacts by working (Rovers in their
> pack/Captive Rovers)."
>
> If you want to work these stations...it is up to you
> to captivate them!  Get more bands (1 QSO on 10 GHz =
> 8 QSO's on 2m in January!) and learn how to work other
> stations "all the way up", quickly.
>
> More "Crackers for the Cranium",
> Ev, W2EV
>
>
>
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