[VHFcontesting] roving stats

Sun Feb 28 19:05:22 PST 2010

roving stats

Well if you consider the new tactic since the rule change that 11 teams are using one person's gear (to inflate one club's overall score and dominate all three classes of roving) the number of 73 would be adjusted to 63 participants slightly less than the rule change.  Since all these folks mainly use one man's equipment to work each other and their home club, I really see it as one big team effort.  If that's what the arrl wants to call activity for spectrum defense and its the operation practice they want to see out there in their contests then more power to them. I think the ARRL has pushed some of the rovers who were out there to work everyone down into the limited class so that they have a better chance to compete.

If we are using numbers to argue a point, look at the years where there is 92 and 83 in big storm years and before the rover controversy was really brought to light and subsently left to fester.  It's kind of like getting on the flight deck and saying mission acomplished.  

Again the only way to settle this is to make the Logs public record.  I may not enter again until that is so.  I donb't want to trade barbs for a month, but I wasn't letting a misrepresentation slide by when the subject was suppose to be dead on here anyway.

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> 1. Preliminary - Rover Activity in the January 2010 Contest
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> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:19:27 -0700
> From: James Duffey <jamesduffey at comcast.net>
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] Preliminary - Rover Activity in the January
> 2010 Contest
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> Cc: James Duffey <jamesduffey at comcast.net>
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> With 73 entrants, rover activity was high during the January 2010 contest. Both Classic Rover entries and Limited Rover entries grew from 2008. The Unlimited Rover Class continues to languish, with just 2 entries. Overall participation in the contest grew significantly from 649 entries in 2009 to 759 entries in 2010 and rover entries grew from 58 in 2009.
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> Here is the historical January contest participation data with 2010 preliminary data added: 
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> Table - Rover Activity in the ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes since 1992 
> Year All Rover %Rover CR LR UR Notes
> 2010 759 73 9.6 47 24 2 
> 2009 649 58 8.9 41 12 5 
> 2008 709 61 8.6 36 24 1 Rover Categories Added
> 2007 778 68 8.7 68 
> 2006 793 67 8.4 67 
> 2005 712 53 7.4 53 
> 2004 834 93 11.2 93 
> 2003 798 82 10.3 82 
> 2002 802 72 9.0 72 
> 2001 790 86 10.9 66 
> 2000 820 48 5.9 48 
> 1999 966 76 7.9 76 
> 1998 1075 74 6.9 74 
> 1997 1182 78 6.6 78 
> 1996 1219 80 6.6 80 Rover Scoring Changed
> 1995 1171 71 6.1 71 Rover Scoring Changed
> 1994 1013 86 8.5 66 
> 1993 1036 106 10.2 106 
> 1992 958 79 8.2 79 First Rover Class
> CR - Classic Rover
> LR - Limited Rover
> UR - Unlimited Rover
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> The 2010 data is based on the logs received page from the ARRL web site. It does not include paper entries, so the total may grow by 5% or so and perhaps another rover or two. Still it is good enough to show positive trends.
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> Activity in the January Contest, particularly for rovers, is very dependent on the weather, which explains many of the wide swings sees in the historical participation data. In some cases it is impossible to rove due to road conditions, and cold temperatures can make it difficult to get out and work antennas. This year the weather was OK over much of the US, and good for the high VHF activity areas in the midwest and east. The southwest had record rain everywhere and snow at the higher elevations in the days leading up to the contest, but the weather for the contest weekend was fairly mild. See my soapbox for pictures of the KK6MC/r rover covered in snow the day before the contest, and another with it surrounded by saguaro cactus in sunlight a day later. AF6O has similar photos of his rover. KR0VER/R got out in Colorado, as did N0LP/R, for the first rover entries in a January contest from that state in many years. No longer will rovers from NM own the January contest in the R
> ocky Mountain Division. Of particular interest is the 420 mile 2M SSB QSO from K7ULS, on Powder Mountain in UT to KR0VER/r in Eastern Colorado! And anyone who complains about the cold affecting roving contests should read NL7HJ/r's soapbox comments.
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> The classic rover entries grew a bit, which is good, as I said in the September analysis there is concern that the limited class will siphon off Classic Rover entrants and that is clearly not the case here. The limited Rover class doubled in size over last year, but remains constant from 2008. The class is getting traction, attracting newcomers, or inactive rovers who don't want to go to the bother of outfitting a full up 10 band rover. 
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> The Unlimited Rover Class has not attracted a significant number of participants since it was formed, and it certainly has not been used by entrants as it was envisioned. The entrants who have used it, have used it to good advantage though. The lack of entrants in the Unlimited class has been pretty universal across all the VHF/UHF contests from the introduction of the class. 
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> The California rover pack was out with 11 well equipped rover stations and contributed to an impressive score for the Southern California Contest Club in the Club competition. The pack used a slightly different strategy, with some of the rovers splitting off from the pack so that not all of the rovers were in the same grid at the same time.
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> There was some Es from AZ and southern CA to the northwest and rovers took advantage of that to get a few more multipliers than usual. There was little in the way of other openings; little tropo and no aurora. 
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> The Spring Sprints are coming up and it is not too early to start planning your rove. Although these are short contests, with planning and a favorable location a Rover can get to two, three, or even four grids in an evening. - Duffey
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> KK6MC
> James Duffey
> Cedar Crest NM
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> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:59:05 -0500
> From: "Jim Worsham" <wa4kxy at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] Southeastern VHF Society Conference
> Registration Is Open!
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> Hello everyone. I am pleased to announce that registration is now open for
> the Southeastern VHF Society Conference to be held at Morehead State
> University in Morehead, Kentucky on April 23 - 24, 2010. You can download
> the registration form at www.svhfs.org/2010registration.pdf. Further
> information on the conference, venue, etc. can be found at
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> I would also like to remind everyone to also get your hotel room reservation
> in place as soon as possible. There are two other activities going on at
> the university that weekend and we are expecting the supply of hotel rooms
> to be tight. Information on hotel rooms can be found at
> http://www.svhfs.org/lodging.html.
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> Finally, there are still some time slots available in the program. If you
> would like to make a presentation at the conference please let the program
> chair Robin, K4IDC know by March 5th. You can contact Robin at k4idc at
> comcast dot net. Information on submitting a paper and/or presentation can
> be found at http://www.svhfs.org/callforpapers2010.html. If you have
> already notified Robin that you will be submitting a paper and/or
> presentation for the conference Robin will need it in his hands by April
> 19th in order to have time to burn it onto the CD which will be provided to
> the conference attendees. Sooner is even better.
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> 73
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> Jim, W4KXY
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