[VHFcontesting] Rover stuff

[k4gun at comcast.net]

The last time this came up, I asked the experienced rovers how often they had ever made uncoordinated contacts with other rovers.  One guy said his maximum was 30 but that was only once and never happened again.  It was a very strange set of circumstances that lead to it.  Beyond that single person, none could find a log or even a vague memory of making more than 10 to a single other rover.  It could happen, but the chances are very slim.  If the number were 10 for Limited and 30 for Classic, I doubt you'd ever have a case where a rover had to make a field decision about making the QSO and submitting in Unlimited or not making that 11th or 31st contact.  



I'll also point out that being moved to Unlimited is not punishment!  It just means you're going to be compared to different guys than you thought.  No big deal.  



Steve 

K4GUN/R 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Evans" <dan.evans at insightbb.com> 
To: "VHF contesting list" <vhfcontesting at contesting.com> 
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 6:53:13 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Rover stuff 

I put Rover in the subject so all of those subscribed to the reflector 
who don't like receiving email can easily delete it :-) 

>This is where I have a "problem" with limiting the number of QSO's with 
>another rover station to some arbitrary number, unless the formula for 
>determining 
>this rule can be made to be understandable to the participants without 
>unnecessarily modifying the "normal" behavior of "uncoordinated" rovers who 
>happen across other rovers during the contest. 

I don't like this idea either.   I believe this is likely why the number was set so high in the current rules [100]. 

Here is an arbitrary scenario: 
Rover A is northbound in EM77 and hears Rover B.  Rover B is southbound in EM79.  They run their 10 bands for the first 10 QSO's.  As both enter EM78, they run another 10 QSO's, 20 total so far.  When A hits EM79, and B hits EM77, they run again and now have 30 each.  And this could likely hit 50 or 60 QSO's for each Rover in an "un-circled" meeting.  I don't like the idea of penalizing Rover A and B in this scenario. 

I don't like the idea of restricting the "re-activation" of grids either, but it may be the solution that hurts the least... 

Here is a thought: 
Drop grids as mults.  Give one multiplier for each unique call sign contacted....  Did I come up with this, or did someone else already propose it?  We have been over this ground so many times I can't remember...  Sorry, I haven't had my coffee yet this morning... 


73 
Dan 
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