[VHFcontesting] One Missing Rover

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

A year or so N5AC did a big survey of VHF contesting in general for the  
ARRL.  So far it seems to have been sucked into the usual black hole in  
Newington.  Has anybody evidence otherwise?
 
Aside from the captive rover and grid circling issues, probably only  
somewhat less resolvable than the Sunni vs. Shiite issues, I have a couple  of small 
but very logical rover rule improvements I'd like to see:
 
 
1.  Eliminate the requirement that a rover must transport its own  power 
sources.  Sure, if you're headed down the Skyline Drive or to some  isolated 
mountaintop, you'll need your own power.  But if you want to set  up your rover 
station on six meters in some campground in Kansas, why not be  able to plug into 
the local AC mains? It would certainly save gas, and maybe  some ill will 
from neighbors who would have to contend with generator  noise.
 
2.  Eliminate the rule that only those rover contacts made in  club territory 
count for a club score.  If some would be rover from an  isolated area heads 
toward the populated areas where the activity is, and makes  a good score by 
doing so, why should his score count for any less for his club  than the score 
of a rover who lives nearby counts for his club? Also, this rule  makes for 
very cumbersome record keeping, and is in many instances unverifiable  or 
unenforceable.
 
 
73  -   Jim   K8MR



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