[VHFcontesting] Captivated circling rovers

[frank bechdoldt]

One of my biggest discouragement was runiing into a pack of captive rovers
who only talked 100s of deef or less with one main rover who was 
available to everyone when he felt like being within a few 100 kcs of the
calling frequency.  Once I saw this I didnt even really work them and I was
at the 4 point intersection too.  A hand held and rubber duck for a 900 mhz
station come on!

However I did work one rover who stuck his rubber duck in another ham's
looper antenna for A DE and worked a few qsos. These 2 travelled together
but worked the whole northwest wit about 70 percent of the qsos being not
of each other.  If they would of done this in PA then it would of been 90
other people.

I urge all those who still care and might be able to do something about
this to ask the Arrl to allow a maximum of 10% of a stations points to come
from another station.  In this case these 2 could of picked the qsos where
they get unique multipliers thus to not punish them for being in the middle
of nowhere. And the group of captivated circling rovers would have to grow
to the size of 10.

Also in last years poll of vhf contesters this issue and roving was
considered the biggest problem, so many of you with many of differnt views
are not a minority. This poll caught the Arrl a bit off guard.

k3uhf