[VHFcontesting] rover response

[frank bechdoldt]

Not to really pick on AA5JG but to pick at his point.
 
In what you said, just turn in a check log if you are doing it for fun.  But a contest is a contest and there needs to be an agreement on acceptable behavior for the contest to be seen as honorable.
 
This was the attempt of the unlimited rover but the result was lost in the shuffle and intent of “doing no harm.”  The fix for this can not be done in baby steps.  Or the ARRl needs to officially endorse team grid circling as the path to victory and encourage the formation of teams to make short distance QSOS around arbitrary intersections.  
 
Can anyone else give me an example how to post a huge score without circling?
 
And to Jim’s question, yes circling still goes on.  The key to thwart the 100 qso limit is to hand out 8 lunch box stations and travel in a pack as what happened last year.  Now you have 800 guaranteed QSOs from 7 partners, none of them owning their own gear.  Just look at some of the rover  winners all working each other last year as a caravan of different classes of rovers feeding upon themselves to win all three categories.
 
This is why there should be a 20-30 percent limit on rover to rover contacts in any rover’s log, except for unlimited.  Or change the rule that encourages one to work as many stations as possible. 
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