[VHFcontesting] Grid Circling

[Bruce Herrick]

Matt Patterson wrote:
> That's easy for you to say when you're not a rover in their division.  Take 
> it from someone who is.  What they are doing is an unfair manipulation of 
> the rules and the rules need to be changed.  I'm seriously considering not 
> going out in September because I know I won't have a chance to even place in 
> my division because of the "legal" grid circling tatics employed by certain 
> rovers.

> This kinda reminds me of a problem we have here at work.  We have a 
> community refrigerator here and unless you put your name on your food there 
> are a certain few here who will eat it.  They know it's not theirs, they 
> know it's wrong but yet they still do it.  Same with grid circling, they 
> know it's wrong and know it's not ethically right but since it's not 
> breaking any rules they still go out and do it.
> 
I once saw someone fired for doing that.  Stealing is wrong - PERIOD. 
Grid circling, however, under the rules, is not wrong, ethically or 
otherwise.  It DOES belong in its own category, however.


Bruce WW1M