[VHFcontesting] Contest rules and rovering

[Dan Evans]

Hi John,

It's sad, but it happens.  It happened to me in both of the grids I made 
it to this past contest, with the same station.  He was  an easy contact 
on 2m, but when I asked for other bands he told me he would be on 6 in a 
couple of hours.  I wanted to say, "dude, I'm a Rover.  I'll be gone in 
a couple of hours!"   But I didn't.  If he wants to loose the easy 
point, it's his choice.  A couple hours later I found him on 2m again 
from my next grid, and got the same dismissal.  To make it even worse, I 
later heard him work another Rover in a distant grid and HE asked that 
Rover to run the bands....  Apparently that Rover was in a new grid for him.

It's annoying.  It hurt his score by passing up easy points.  But it's 
his station, his choice. 

For a multi to do it sounds like a rookie operator.  I don't think any 
experienced contester would pass up easy points, particularly on microwaves.

For example, the guys at K8GP tried me on 432 several times, even though 
I'm sure they worked the grid dozens of times.

I just wish folks would consider even though they may not need my grid, 
I may need theirs!   You may not need/want the points, but I do!!  Throw 
the Rover a bone:-)

73
Dan
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John D'Ausilio wrote:
> This past weekend while roving through New England we worked a multiop
> station on 2M and asked to be passed to the microwaves (which would
> have been an easy 5 minute run through 6 bands). The response we
> received was disheartening .. "Let me check to see if we need your
> grid".
>
> I don't think I've seen any mention of the possibility of providing a
> premium to fixed stations to contact rovers. There's really no
> motivation with the current rules for a station to work rovers other
> than if the rover is in a rare grid, and we can't always be in rare
> grids! And it could snowball .. increasing motivation for fixed
> stations to work rovers may increase the number of rovers which may
> increase the number of rare grids activated, with benefits for all
> concerned.
>
> Just a passing thought .. de w1rt/john
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