Steve,
I totally understand your point of view and think its time the league did
something RE: "PACK ROVER"s...
They should still be scored the same way but placed in a different category,
one that I call "Mega Rover" as they clearly dont belong in the rest of the
ROVER results.
The criteria for inclusion should be the percentage of QSOs made outside
their pack... The N6NB group, by the leagues own admission in the results
last year, worked only 3% of their contacts outside their group... THREE
MEASLEY PERCENT! They also that years worked 128 Qs and 12 Mults (I think it
was 12) ON EACH AND EVERY MICROWAVE BAND THRU 10 GHZ. Their totals on the
lower 4 bands were less than mine and several other 4 band rovers.
While I applaude their drive, desire, and stamina to make it happen, it
clearly is an operation that is a total "Team Effort" and without that PACK
approach, they would score like the rest of us. Since they must operarate as
a pack to generate these huge scores, they should also be scored as a pack
in their own category.
Typically 90% of my ROVER QSOs are with stationary stations and 10% with the
ROVERs I find while enroute. To work only 3% of your TOTAL QSOs from outside
your "PACK" to my mind makes you a totally different animal than a normal
"work everyone who comes along" ROVER and as such, should be scored
accoudingly.
I maintain the National ROVER Honor Rolls for the 3 VHF Contests on my
website (k7xc.tripod.com) and from day one have placed "PACK" efforts into a
"Mega Rover" class, where they belong.
Its time this was the case with the league as well.
If their scores are not separated from the rest of the ROVER community,
there will be less and less participants in that category as demonstrtated
by Steves comments attached below.
It takes alot of brainstorming, planning, time, effort, money, energy,
desire, and skill to pull off a sucessful ROVER operation.
We should create reasons for them to invest their time and resources to
activate those rare grids for us all and not provide disincentives to their
even thinking of ROVERing in the first place...
ROVER is precious resource we need to nurture and protect...
Stepping off the soapbox to let other voice their opinions...
73s de Tim - K7XC - DM09ol... sk
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QRV from 8000' Peavine Mtn in DM09 for the UHF Contest Next Weekend
Looking for new grids on 222!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:13:40 -0500
From: "Stephen Hicks, N5AC" <n5ac@n5ac.com>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] January VHF Contest Results
To: <VHFContesting@contesting.com>
Well, I checked the January scores and found out that although I had the top
score in Texas for a Rover, three guys from California grid-circled their
way to Texas and were scored in my region with 2M+ points each, placing me
fourth... is there a reason for me to continue sending in a score to the
ARRL if I'm not into heavy-duty grid-circling since clearly that will
generate the top scores?
Steve, N5AC
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