[VHFcontesting] poll, answer to Q's

[frank bechdoldt]

Have you heard any practical proposals to
define and categorise pack roving, etc.?

73 de Buck, KC2HIZ/r


I have heard of one way and thought of another way to set a limit.

A limit of the number of contacts betreen 2 rover stations IE no more than 
10-20 percent of counted qsos could come from another individual rover on my 
log sheet.

The pros to this, if you were a captured grid circler it would have to be a 
pack of 5-10 vehicles to match the percentage or you would be forced to work 
other people.

The cons to this if the number was set to low it might hurt two random 
rovers in a sparsely populated area. However each rover could pick the best 
contacts that fall withinn the percentage limitations to maximize thier grid 
count why throwing out repeated grids that involved said other rover.

Another solution is to only count the grid when working a repeated rover and 
not the points. This forces other contacts.

Another would make the rover adverage at least 10 differnt stations per grid 
activated. This allows a rover to move on from slow grids and make more qsos 
in other grids.  A 10 grid rover would have to contact 100 different 
stations to qualify as a rover. If he only did 90 different stations he 
would pick his 9 best grids.

The best is another catagory for circlers who work in teams. It is obvious 
when they are always in the same set of intersections in all thier logs.

Also as to the other comment there may be 2 teams in California,  the 
complaints of the qrm and ignored calls are on comments part of the spread 
sheet of the poll.  I have not had any problems with anyone ignoring a call 
in the northwest. 222.1 is not a coordinating frequency, for caprive 
circling rovers and when Im in the middle of nowhere during a contest I dont 
hear much off the calling freqs unless the band is open.  Thats a west coast 
thing I suppose.

jim wrote


>And my defiinition of my biggest complaint is the Captive circler. That
>being the rovers we have on the west coast who only works themselves or at
>least a very high majority of themselves.

We don't have any rovers on the west coast that do that.

We had guys from california team up in a band of three with one guys 
equipment post a million point score with 98 percent of the qsos made with 
the other 2 rovers in his group and when questioned he said there was no one 
out there to work.  The 98 percent team generated qso rate is a quote from 
qst magazine about 2 years ago.

This web page shows where they have worked in a group , the poll shows the 
complaints. Its a good opperation if they would work other people.


73s Frank

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