[VHFcontesting] about the grid circling group

[Stephen Hicks, N5AC]

Steve,

A number of people worked very hard to craft the new rules for rovers.  One
of the objectives was to give those that grid-circle and enjoy it a place
(class) of their own to do that.  I am not one of those folks, but they have
a good time as you can see from their pictures and with the limited numbers
in this segment of the hobby, it seems silly (dumb) to exclude people.  You
really can only grid circle in the unlimited class since there is a 100 Q
limit with other rovers in the other two classes.

I have been a "classic" rover for all of my past rover operating time.  As
it happens, Ham-Com (hamfest in Plano Texas) was coincident with the June
contest and I ran into a friend with a son (licensed) that wanted to rove
with me and my son.  Under the old rules, I would have had to exclude the
other person from our rove since rovers could only have two people.  It was
a simple choice to switch to unlimited-rover and conduct the contest as a
three-person group.  We had a good time and I was able to introduce someone
new to the hobby.  I would not have expected to end up in this class, but I
was glad when the moment arrived to have the option.  

I know this wasn't really the reason for your post.

Steve, N5AC

-----Original Message-----
From: vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of k4gun at comcast.net
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 2:23 PM
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Subject: [VHFcontesting] about the grid circling group

I noticed something odd.  I'm trying to figure out how these guys do it.
The new rules seem to have just given the grid circling expedition two new
categories in which to win, but that's not the point of this message.  I was
reading their soapbox here:
http://www.arrl.org/contests/soapbox/index.html?con_id=154&call=n6nb%2Fr

I was comparing all their operators to the list of submitted logs and
realized that one of their group didn't submit one.  N6TEB/R is not listed
anywhere for a claimed score yet according to the soapbox, he was worked 30
times by the group's QRP portable member K6VCR.  

Why would a guy spend the time and money to go on a 15 grid expedition and
not submit a log?  It doesn't make any sense to me.  Could somebody shed
some light on this?  Would this have any effect on the logs of the rest of
the group?

73
Steve K4GUN/R
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