[VHFcontesting] Roving Thoughts (was: Re: grid circling bashing, end it)

[Nate Duehr]

Very interesting!  Not what I expected at all!

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Nate Duehr
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On Dec 5, 2008, at 18:13, "Chet, N8RA" <chetsubaccount at snet.net> wrote:

> OK- FWIW I looked at this for the June contest (unable to  
> participate in
> Sept).
> I was single op low power, with only 6 and 2M.
>
> Removing the rovers from my log, I would have lost 1 grid out of 77  
> on 6M
> and 7 of the 198 QSO's.
> On 2M I would have lost 1 grid out of 29 and 9 of the 134 QSO's.
>
> Bottom line would have gone down 6.6%
>
> Chet, N8RA
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 1:50 PM
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> Subject: [VHFcontesting] Roving Thoughts (was: Re: grid circling  
> bashing,
> end it)
>
> .....
>
> Rovers are an insanely small minority of hams, and even a very small  
> group
> of the contest operators in the contest itself -- but probably  
> account for
> the vast majority of the winning fixed station's scores, since the  
> contest
> rewards working the most grid squares.
>
> (It would be interesting to take away all the Rover contacts and see  
> how it
> affects the scores, just as a math/statistics exercise.)
>
> Only Rovers can "fill in the holes", for the fixed stations!
>
>