[VHFcontesting] lcr response

[frank bechdoldt]

I commend John  n6mu for responding in the spirit of debate.

His  response to the below sums up the point.

2/3d of john's  contacts were with the same partners, thus you were 3 times 
less likely to make a mistake. You did a fine job on dupes and grid 
exchanges. I missed June's contest so I can not compare. however in 
September I had 700 qsos all from what you call "others" who I am sure are 
somewhat minor repeats in stations  in both of  our cases as we changed 
grids and contacted people twice.

Of my 700 qsos none of them were with sations I partnered with, most of them 
were over one grid square away. IE 60 miles  The 700 qsos were done in a 
less populated regions and with no 6 meter band openings like in junes 
wonderful contest. I was limited to 6 bands.

Your response proves why there should be 2 classes of rovers and the LCRs 
demostrate it with clairity.  You worked the same team member(s) 2/3rd of 
the time and only 364 other random Qs to make a score of 500k in a more 
populated region such as california. I worked 700 random qsos from easten 
oregon and washington where people needs my grids visited and in the end I 
only post a score around 70k.

More vhfers were rewarded from my efforts than yours, yet you post a big 
score by maniplulating the rules. How is this right in the sportsmanship of 
contesting.

I dont see how the ARRL or the VUAC can see the logic in this.

If they made 2 classes I would try to finf someone to team up with, work my 
700 random qsos and another 600 with my cirling buddy in order to post a 
bigger score in your catagory.

Anyway 99 percent accuracy means little with 66 percent repeats.  But 99 
percent may be better than me as a one man show. I hope I never busted 
anyone with my mistakes.

33 percent random/ unskeduled qsos are better than 98 percent.  I hope 
someday they draw the line at 10 % sked/partnered qsos   and seperate our 
catagories. John at least equips his cars with antennas unlike other ones I 
have seen.

k3uhf




john wrote:
And perhaps they don't, Frank. I had 354 "other" Qs with no uniques, no lost
mults and no penalties. I just had one incorrect exchange. 73 and Merry
Christmas!

John, N6MU


ARVHFJUN-2006
Call: N6MU
Category: ROVER
ARRL Section: SJV

*** Summary ***

994 raw QSO before duplicate removal and checking reductions
994 net QSO after duplicate removal and checking reductions
2288 net QSO points after checking
223 net multipliers after checking
510224 final score

0 (0.0%) duplicates
0 (0.0%) calls copied incorrectly
1 (0.1%) exchanges copied incorrectly
0 (0.0%) not in log
0 (0.0%) calls unique to this log only

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