[VHFcontesting] Log Rovers Correctly

Jonesy W3DHJ W3DHJ at jonz.net
Mon Mar 28 20:08:22 EDT 2016


On Mon, 28 Mar 2016, James Duffey wrote:

>W7QQ and I roved in his rover for the September VHF/UHF contest. When I
>reviewed the Log Checking Report I found that four out of our six
>logging errors were for not logging rovers with a /r. I am not sure if
>the cause was me not correctly logging the stations with /r or if it
>was the rover for not signing /r, or some combination of the two. But,
>as stations can enter the VHF/UHF contests as both a rover and a fixed
>station, it is important to log the /r correctly. I think at one time
>the log checkers tried to reconcile the QSOes without the /r, but not
>now. And they shouldn?t have to.
>
>So, please take care to log those rovers correctly. And rovers, be sure
>to sign /r on CW or ?rover? on phone. It seems obvious, but it never
>hurts to emphasize it and in the heat of a contest it is easy to slip
>into a pattern where the /r gets dropped on both sides. Watch for it.

 +1


Jonesy W3DHJ/R
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