[VHFcontesting] To Rovers headed out

[Phil Theis]

To all operators heading to Rare (or Semi-Rare) Grids:
I am a single operator that is very interested in working any rover 
going out to a Rare (or even not so rare) Grid.
Please publish your operating frequency and approximate time that you 
will be in a grid.  That gives us some basis to go looking for you.
Now I know that it is not possible to know exactly when you will be at a 
particular location given location.  But I can tell you that many rovers 
here in the Northeast publish their itinerary beforehand and it makes 
for very east contacts with them.
To the extent that you can stick to a schedule on a specific frequency 
and have a reputation for keeping the schedule, you can be a very 
popular rover.
Every rover who publishes a schedule I put into a schedule module and it 
reminds me a minute before the announced time and I go to the stated 
frequency and look for the rover.  If I don't have a time and frequency, 
I don't know when to look or where to look and things get very random.
This is from my perspective, and believe me, I LOVE the rovers and don't 
know what we would do without them.
Thanks for roving:
73,
Phil K3TUF FN10we