[VHFcontesting] Endorse Rover Rules Revisions EXCEPT the 30 Q Limit

[Ev Tupis]

Not at all, John.  You find the best location in a Grid-4 and operate.  When you're done...you're done.  Move on to the best location in the next Grid-4 and operate there.  (uh-oh...one more rule needed: 3. Once operation begins from a given Grid-4, the station may not move to another location within a Grid-4 for the duration of the operation).

Nobody said that you can't drive through a previously activated grid to get somewhere.  You simply can't reactivate while you do it.

Simple and elegant.

Ev, W2EV



--- On Tue, 2/17/09, John D'Ausilio <jdausilio at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John D'Ausilio <jdausilio at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Endorse Rover Rules Revisions EXCEPT the 30 Q  Limit
> To: w2ev at yahoo.com
> Cc: vhfcontesting at contesting.com
> Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 3:48 PM
> Look Ev, the 'once and once only' grid rule you seem
> to be in love
> with is not going to be acceptable to most rovers .. if
> roads all ran
> N-S or E-W it wouldn't be such a problem, but as people
> have stated in
> most places (including all of my routes in the past) you
> revisit grids
> either because of where the road goes or because you
> eventually have
> to get home ;)  Your proposal would drastically reduce the
> amount of
> time I could operate (and increase the amount of time
> I'd be driving)
> ..
> 
> de w1rt/john
> 
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Ev Tupis
> <w2ev at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Glen Overby
> <goverby at charter.net> wrote:
> >> Ev Tupis wrote:
> >> > 1. Rovers calculate their final score by
> simple summing of their
> >> > scores from each individual Grid-4 that they
> activate.
> >
> >> Didn't the scoring system used to be like
> that?
> >
> > No. There was always an "incentive" quotient
> at play.
> >
> >> > 2. Once operation begins from a new Grid-4,
> it may not
> >> > resume in a previously activated Grid-4 for
> the remainder
> >> > of the event.
> >>
> >> I'm fine with the 30 / 50% QSO limit, and
> think this is
> >> a bad idea.
> >
> > The 30/50 thing is too difficult for most people to
> abide by.  Why are you resistant to the above proposal? 
> It's simple to implement and abide by.
> >
> > Ev
> >
> >
> >
> >
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