[VHFcontesting] Captive Roving...whatever that is, really

[Ev Tupis]

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From: Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com


> ON THE OTHER HAND, if contest sponsors would *publish* a "% unique Callsigns" statistic along with the line scores, I'd bet that the "court of public opinion" would act like garlic to a vampire and cast such behavior to the depths of Hades.

During years when 6m doesn't open out here in the wide-open land of 
Colorado, ALL of our so-called "unique callsign scores" which Ev 
recommends, will suck.

We'll work the same 10-20 guys all weekend, on as many bands as we have 
and realize that the contest for that year is the usual "whoever has the 
most bands wins", and go home happy, like we usually do.
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Hi Nate,
Your post shows to demonstrate how difficult it is to prove the existance of "Captive Roving" in the first place (my original point).  I formally recind the proposal of publishing "% Unique Callsigns" and gently repoint the discussion back to defining the alleged practice in the first place.

I stand corrected...well done, old man.

Ev, W2EV

PS: About this...

Not to mention that I had at least 20 non-hams interested in folowing my 
progress this year on the various online maps, until I realized that 
running APRS would disqualify me.  It was looking to be pretty good "PR" 
for our hobby up until the point a kind friend warned me that APRS via a 
digi system would be considered self-spotting.

... all you need to do is remove any/all digi's from your path, and include "RFONLY" instead.  Everyone can still use APRS software to track you, but they will need to be on simplex (suggested frequency: 147.585, btw) and you should run high power (like a 160 watt brick) to be heard.  This is an ARRL approved strategy for using APRS, fwiw.