[VHFcontesting] Rover Activity and otherwise in June ARRL VHF

[James Duffey]

Steve Thanks for the comments on my post. I made my post on the  
contest activity before the claimed scores were posted, so I did not  
know about W6YLZ's impressive score.

I don't agree with you that W6YLZ's score is impossible without grid  
circling, but I am very impressed with his score without the microwave  
QSO points. Visiting a lot of grids, making sure that there are  
stations on the different bands in different grids to work when you  
are there, and lots of Es can all lead to a big score without grid  
circling. There is certainly no blatant evidence of grid circling in  
the logs received posts. I am not sure why there is any reason to  
suspect it.

I ind it hard to believe that the participants in a 4 or 6 or 8  
station coordinated rover effort would not submit logs. So if there  
was a coordinated effort, I suspect that it was done with fixed or  
portable stations. But I am not convinced that a grid circling effort  
was required to achieve that score.

With Es, if the band is open a lot, 200 + contacts in 100+ grids are  
possible. This would put the limited rover in the 100,000 point  
category, as long as a sufficient number of contacts were made on the  
upper bands in a reasonable number of grids.

I think we should wait until the results are published before we decry  
W6YLZ's efforts. - Duffey

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KK6MC
James Duffey
Cedar Crest NM