[VHFcontesting] Some Real Rover Data

[wb2odhjim at aol.com]

Hi John
Congratulations on your efforts and final score.  Its always been enjoyable to work the contests from the next mountain top, (Fraizer Mt.). It didn't seem to hinder nether of us from working stations and grids and achieve good contest results.  
 
I always find it interesting that the "WANT-A-BEs" are always quick to accuse others of monopolizing freqs., using controlled rovers, captive rovers, and on and on.  If they ONLY would apply hours/week/mouths of planing and dedication with good equipment and good operating skills they too could enjoy great scores.  I still find it quite amusing that those who makes the most noise about our past contest operations.  
 
Just let this slide off your back like water on the LOUD Ducks back and continue to operate and enjoy contesting.
 
Gayle, WA2ODH and I, W2ODH are full-time RVing (rovering) around our great USA. 
 
73
Jim. W2ODH/ somewhere in the USA.
"From the old contest group, W2ODH/6"
 

-----Original Message-----
From: N6MU1 at aol.com
To: vhfcontesting at contesting.com
Sent: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 8:08 AM
Subject: [VHFcontesting] Some Real Rover Data


I'm getting tired of being accused of being a captive rover who only works 
other rovers while 500 feet apart. Here's some real data from the June contest 
and is typical of our operations. The team of N6MU and N6HC had the top Rover 
score. We travelled with W6XD while activating 16 grids here in CA. Of the 21 
hours of operation only 4 were spent working W6XD. The other 17 were spent 
working everyone we could hear and generated 354 Qs. Captive rover? Many 
stations 
were worked on multiple bands from multiple grids. Captive rover? Like 
everyone else, a great deal of time was spent chasing DX on 6 resulting in 58 
grids 
on that band. Captive rover? Stations like VE7AHA, KB0HH, K7CW, VA6AN and 
AL1VE/R were worked from multiple grids. Captive rover?

These accusations are simply not true! Also, creating a separate category for 
less than 10 and probably less than 5 stations makes no sense to me. 73...

John, N6MU
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