[VHFcontesting] Contesting ethics for rovers

[Bill Olson]

Hmmm indeed.. Here's what the current "rover rules" say.. (I just copied this off the ARRL web page):

3.3.6. Rover operators may submit separate logs for single operator
(fixed station) in addition to their rover entries. Rovers submitting a
score for inclusion in a club competition must also include a secondary
summary sheet indicating the portion of the score that counts for the
club score if any of the QSOs submitted take place outside of their
club's territory.

So it seems a rover at any rate can submit 2 logs.. That does NOT however say a fixed station operator can submit a log from two fixed stations in different grids. 

Of course, K4GUN, who made the original post, has already said "he ain't gonna do it", so this is just a lot of speculation and talk, but I suppose it shows we're paying attention!

bill, K1DY




> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:28:49 -0700
> From: kb7dqh at donobi.net
> To: k5qe at sabinenet.com
> CC: vhfcontesting at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Contesting ethics for rovers
> 
> Hmmm... There is the rule that permits individual operators in a Multiop
> station to work each other on the bands 2304 AND ABOVE... provided that
> each operator uses "separate equipment"... "Stretched", one would "pass
> the gunnplexer around the campfire" so to speak, which would technically
> be a violation unless all the participants were in a "family" and could
> "share" equipment...
> 
> I will have to reread the Unlimited Rover rules to see if this is allowed;
> where the several operators each had portable microwave equipment
> on-board, in addition to the Unlimited Rover's "station equipment"...  It
> would then be possible to conveniently stop, deploy the individually owned
> and operated equipment, work the Unlimited Rover station, each other, then
> pack it up and move on...
> 
> If the scenario in the last paragraph were a permitted practice for
> Unlimited Rovers, I could have "activated" 5 more grids last January, by
> simply packing the "extra" 10 Ghz gear and separated out one operator to
> work the Rover!!!
> 
> Eric
> KB7DQH
> 
> 
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