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At any given time out on the road, we have 1-5 other rovers in range.
Nothing is more fun that working a VE rover across Lake Ontario in one grid
and then again the next day in two other grids. Take this away and the
enthusiasm level will plummet!
< unsnip
Well said. Fun.
On one end of the rover-to-rover spectrum we have (one ?) highly
coordinated rover pack(s) who work each other for nearly 100% of all their
contacts. On the other end of the rover-to-rover spectrum we have more
remote areas of our country, or areas without active clubs, where rovers
are rare and/or not coordinated and hence rover-to-rover contacts are rare.
Many of us are somewhere in-between where we do have chance encounters with
fellow rovers. As a rover myself, I agree that working other rovers on
chance encounters and at distance is an absolute hoot. Where I operate we
do improve our probability of chance by letting everyone know our rover
schedule and a primary rover freq (ex: 144.245 MHz), but during the battle
of contesting, its still a chance encounter. I don't think we would want
to throw the baby out with the bath water and say that rovers cannot
contact other rovers - that would not be good for VHF contesting.
73, Jon
W0ZQ
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