[VHFcontesting] Assistance in the VHF contest

[Keith Morehouse]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 5:34 PM, James Duffey <jamesduffey at comcast.net> wrote:
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> I agree with you that having the grid in the spot makes the QSO easier, probably will be abused, and I told the Ad Hoc committee
> as much in my input to them.  I hope you did the same. They chose not to use that input in their rule making.

Only for Rovers.

There are all sorts of databases from which grids can be obtained.
ON4KST chat and DXMaps both maintain automatic grid look-up databases
and there is always QRZ.COM.  Everybody already knows what grid the
vast majority of fixed stations are in, so including the grid in a
self-spot is pretty much redundant.

They could have denied spotting to Rovers.  They could modify the VHF
exchange to include 'previously unknown' information, like
Sweepstakes...

If I was Roving, I'd WANT people to know what grid I was in so
antennas could be turned and Q's could be made.

Jay W9RM DM58xn