Paul,
The diference is unlike you who goes out portable and sets up a good station
and I who mounts respectable antennas to my vehicle and we are able to work
each other 400 miles apart as I change grid squares. What you and I do and
others is in the spirit of the contest. Exploiting a rule to generate
points with 2 other vehicles with equipment you also own is not cheating.
Its exploitation of the rules.
Read the comments about his caravan qrming people and refusing to work
others, randomly selected people from the poll stated this.
Buying 3 cars of gear and working people 500 feet away is no great feat nor
a reson for us to keep our spectum.
It is a feat, it needs its own catagory.
Frank
>From: Paul Kiesel <k7cw@yahoo.com>
>To: frank bechdoldt <k3uhf@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] poll cont...
>Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 21:25:39 -0800 (PST)
>
>Hey Frank,
>
>I won't run this into the ground because I know you're
>pained about it. But Wayne Overbeck and his buddies, I
>assure you, were not out after any Texas certificate.
>Wayne is a cantankerous soul, but he does what he does
>to be the best, to win, given the rules that exist. I
>don't need to defend him; he's perfectly capable of
>defending himself, and has done just that many times
>for many reasons. Historically, Wayne Overbeck has
>been a real contributor to the advancement of VHF/UHF
>amateur radio. That's the way I like to look at it.
>The problem about rovers is not people like Wayne
>Overbeck. The problem is that not enough thought was
>given to what the overall rover rules should be. The
>big flaw was that they felt they had to invent
>something so that guys wouldn't travel to multiple
>grids and submit separate entries for each grid. Well,
>how in the hell did that come about. Well, when they
>created grid locators, they didn't give much thought
>as to what would happen if guys decided to travel to
>different grids to give them out in contests! So, it's
>a sloppy scenario from day one of grid locators, back
>in 1983!!! Now, they have to deal with folks who feel
>that people like Wayne Overbeck are cheating or
>operating in an unfair way. So, that's it. It ain't as
>simple as some might think. And it ain't easily fixed,
>either.
>
>73,
>Paul, K7CW
>
>--- frank bechdoldt <k3uhf@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > IE Rovers who carpet
> > bag in Texas from California dont need to win
> > Texas's prize.
>
>
>
>
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