[VHFcontesting] about the grid circling group

[kr7o at vhfdx.com]

N6TEB is a frequent rover and I always work him multiple times throughout 
the contests they enter.  N6TEB/KE6HPZ go to great effort to work everyone 
possible and I worked them multiple times on every band I had in June 
(would have worked them more had I not been swamped with 6m 
openings).  They have a substantial rover station and antenna array (try 
google for pictures).  They normally place high scores nationally (if you 
factor out the "now unlimited-rover" scores).  To try an class them with 
those "mystery east-coast captive rovers" is unwarranted.    I likewise 
worked N6NB, W6TE/K6MI many times during the contest.  Those rovers were 
responsible for ~50% of my 2M and up contacts and several contest grid squares.

The fact that N6NB is building multiple 10-band stations and making them 
available to others is an asset to microwave activity in California.  There 
has not been this much microwave activity (with stations adding bands to 
compete) since the ARRL created the limited-multiop category.  Take a look 
at the number of  CA stations listing contacts higher than 1296 after 
limited-multi until around five years ago.  I have to admit that the early 
N6NB grid-circling trips in the midwest disappointed me (sorry Wayne), but 
once they brought the show to a populated area they appear to be available 
for anyone to work.



At 07:23 PM 7/19/2008 +0000, k4gun at comcast.net wrote:
>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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73, Robert KR7O/YB2ARO, DM07ba/OI52ee  (ex.  N7STU)
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