[VHFcontesting] One Missing Rover

[John Geiger]

Also,eliminate the requirement that a rover can have only 1 or 2 operators
(which includes the driver).  Can't see the logic in that one either.

73s John AA5JG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Jimk8mr at aol.com>
To: <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] One Missing Rover


> 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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