That tongue in cheek proposal makes absolutely no sense. None. However,
you do come to the exact same conclusion a lot of us have about the lunchbox
brigade. They are working the system, rather than working to communicate.
If they figured out a way to slide through the rules in the SOLP or SOHP
categories, you'd be just as frustrated as the bulk of the rover community
is now.
The VUAC did a great job at splitting the baby with the 30/50 solution.
There is no need to restrict rovers as to where they operate. Your denial
about the realities of roads, schedules, maps and operating plans seem
strange when taken in light of the proposed rule changes. We have a
solution that promotes more contact with base stations. It does nothing
more than define a multi-op rover. I think its fantastic.
I'm beginning to think you're intentionally posting more and more absurd
ideas because you secretly like the new rule idea. You might actually
believe that by conjuring up unworkable alternatives that the ARRL will be
quicker to endorse the VUAC's suggestions.
Steve
K4GUN/R
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Ev Tupis <w2ev@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Steve Clifford <k4gun.r@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'll also be that you'll be glad you don't have to select one
> > single operating location per grid nor that you'll have to ignore
> > stations that you hear while driving through a grid
> > you have already activated.
>
> <tongue-in-cheek>
> Let's give non-Rovers this same ability, then. Say...QRP Portable, for
> instance.
>
> One needs only 4 lunchbox operators to meet the QRP Portable station at
> each corner of the "home" Grid-4 and work them on A-through-L. This results
> in a little over 39k in score...from having 4 calls in the log.
> </tongue-in-cheek>
>
> The result? An overall #2 log in the June 2008 VHF contest, in the QRP
> Portable category - eclipsing 33 other participants.
>
> Double the lunchbox rovers to 8 and they catapult to a #1 win in the QRP
> Portable category, with 8 calls in the log. Sorry KA1LMR...those 409 QSO's
> that you worked hard for got you a second place showing to someone who
> "worked the system" rather than "worked to communicate."
>
> Alas...only the rover category has that advantage...and the endless
> controversy that comes along for the ride.
>
> Ev, W2EV
>
>
>
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