K3UHF..
I did my first rover op for the Sept. contest and my route took me to
Wichita Falls and we never even heard these guys. We were probably less
than 200 miles away from them at one point and never heard a peep.
Matt
W5LL
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From: vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K3uhf@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 11:50 AM
To: n2sln@ascent.net; vhfcontesting@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Sept contest results
Hi
My point was is for the most part they only worked each other. The 2nd guy
feeding off the 1st. The 2nd guy had only 8 look ups on qrz.com. After a
contest my lookups go up 20 or 30 in a weekend. That's based on 400 qsos.
My point is if they are in rare grids people look them up and people send
qsl cards.
It happens to me every contest.
These are the same guys that worked each other 98% of the time in a group of
4 while traveling across the plain sates. They whittled themselves down to 2
and that's why their score is a quarter million instead of 1.25 million. If
they all follow the same route there score will go up by linearly instead of
exponentially because they all use the same grids for contacts. I doubt if
people in north Texas heard them, Texas is big.
They are probably down to two guys after they had 4 before because of one
reason. You see they worked each other for 98% of their score. One of them
was sneaking off and making a qso or four on the calling frequency so he
would beat the other guys in the roving pack. Those extra 4 qsos gave one
of them a 60,000 point bonus where they should have all turned in the same
score. In a rover pack someone has to be the lead dog. You see they were
captive to eachother racing from corner to corner throughout the desert
southwest from Elpaso to LA.
Anyway it was just an observation to spur discussion. I'm glad to see there
are only 2 guys doing it now instead of four. We had a group of 4 up here
doing it too, but they were band limited and the roads are not as straight
as down there, thus limiting their number of good corners to go to.
Don't get me wrong if you randomly run into another rover and someone is
near a grid line, work them again and again. However don't follow them down
the interstate for the entire contest! Think of all the ham gear wasted if
you get into a pileup accident!
k3uhf
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