[VHFcontesting] What is accomplished?

[Jim Forsyth]

Steve,

I want to thank you. It is because of your comments that I was persuaded to 
join the group and see what it was like. I had a blast and it was a 
refreshing change from sitting at home grinding out the contacts, 
(especially on Sunday).

73 Jim, AF6O

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From: "Steve Clifford" <k4gun.r at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 3:23 PM
To: "VHF Contesting" <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
Subject: [VHFcontesting] What is accomplished?

> I know... I know... I sound like a broken record.  I'm looking at the
> soapbox entry for N6NB.  http://www.arrl.org/contests/soapbox/?con_id=171
> He's got a description of how they have evolved their contest expiditions 
> to
> meet the changing rules.  They now have 8 "toolbox" stations and have
> figured out that rover to rover contacts are best spread out around
> different grids to maximize mults.  Evidently, they can just keep adding
> more box stations so they can keep circling as a group and keep "winning"
> the contests.
>
> What are they really accomplishing?  They have a new operator whom they 
> are
> very excited about.  She seems to have the ability to take equipment set 
> up
> and tested by others and plug it in to her Lexus.  She then follows a 
> group
> to the desert and rotates the antenna a couple of times and will doubtless
> get a pretty certificate that recognizes her skill.
>
> Its absurd.  I'm ready to advocate limiting rover to rover contacts to no
> more than 4 and eliminating any mults as a result of rover to rover QSOs.
> Yes, that would affect my score, but I don't care.  The situation is out 
> of
> control and the group just keeps growing to keep pace with the rules.
>
> GRRRRR...
>
> Steve
> K4GUN/R
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