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From: Nate Duehr nate@natetech.com
> ON THE OTHER HAND, if contest sponsors would *publish* a "% unique Callsigns"
> statistic along with the line scores, I'd bet that the "court of public
> opinion" would act like garlic to a vampire and cast such behavior to the
> depths of Hades.
During years when 6m doesn't open out here in the wide-open land of
Colorado, ALL of our so-called "unique callsign scores" which Ev
recommends, will suck.
We'll work the same 10-20 guys all weekend, on as many bands as we have
and realize that the contest for that year is the usual "whoever has the
most bands wins", and go home happy, like we usually do.
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Hi Nate,
Your post shows to demonstrate how difficult it is to prove the existance of
"Captive Roving" in the first place (my original point). I formally recind the
proposal of publishing "% Unique Callsigns" and gently repoint the discussion
back to defining the alleged practice in the first place.
I stand corrected...well done, old man.
Ev, W2EV
PS: About this...
Not to mention that I had at least 20 non-hams interested in folowing my
progress this year on the various online maps, until I realized that
running APRS would disqualify me. It was looking to be pretty good "PR"
for our hobby up until the point a kind friend warned me that APRS via a
digi system would be considered self-spotting.
... all you need to do is remove any/all digi's from your path, and include
"RFONLY" instead. Everyone can still use APRS software to track you, but they
will need to be on simplex (suggested frequency: 147.585, btw) and you should
run high power (like a 160 watt brick) to be heard. This is an ARRL approved
strategy for using APRS, fwiw.
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