My limited experience here in the "Black Hole" (even worse in VHF test) with
rovers is limited, but all I have heard on are not "captive" and many times
provide the only contact in several grids on many bands. I am thankful to
have them out there.
Danny NG9R
Zack Widup writes:
> When Jim was in Illinois he was one of the rovers that always tried to
> work as many different people as possible. The other rovers in this area
> do also, as far as I know. Some are just hard to work when you're using
> horizontal loops or other marginal antennas. I'm sure they would LOVE to
> work everyone they could, but can't always make it due to conditions, etc.
>
> As for the South Pole example, how does it fit into the rules when you're
> parked on 5 grid squares at once? :-]
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 W0eea@aol.com wrote:
>
>>
>> You write a new rule based upon an arbitrary percentage of the contacts in
>> the rover's log that can be made with any one station. To me that is 49%.
>> If
>> half or more of the contacts in a rover's log are with one station he isn't
>> trying hard enough to work other people.
>>
>> (Yes I understand it could still be abused unless the rule was written and
>> applied on a QSOs per band basis.)
>>
>> (BTW such a rule would also have prevented abuse of rover squared type
>> operation - the rules wouldn't have had to be rewritten - but that's another
>> argument completely. )
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Jim
>> w0eea@aol.com
>
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