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

[Ev Tupis]

Hi Steve,
To your point...

> Your first proposed rule doesn't do anythi8ng to address
> the Lunchbox Brigade.  It would leave them totally unaffected and
> I'm not sure what the goal is with this.  So what if you start 
> fresh at each new grid?

The point is actually quite straight forward, though I may have not been as clear in making it as I'd hoped. It is this: The three simple rules that I proposed will align the Rover category's incentives to those of all other participants in an ARRL contest...leaving them with the same "un-level playing field" that everyone else has.

This proposal is not a "silver bullet" to cure all of the ills of VHF contesting.  It is simply a method of re-aligning the Rover class with everyone else.

We'll still have "lunchbox", "captive" and "captivated" rovers.  We'll still have multi-ops with a full library of 10-, 24-GHz "garage door opener transceivers" and LASER pens to loan out to anyone who wants to stop by.  We'll still have (fill in the blank).

What the proposal does, though...is *not* limit the number of rover-to-rover QSO's, *allow* pack-roving and it *does* encourage rovers to establish stations that can be heard by (and worked by) other classes of entrants.

Ev, W2EV