I agree with all of this, and we make the same kinds of decisions. If
I'm trying to work a guy up the bands and we lose each other or a pass
gets missed I'll move on the the next one and try and fill later. If
Xtof has a pass for me and I'm stacked up we'll give the op a time and
do our best to be there. But rovers work off a schedule, and we try
hard to stay on it the best we can.
But I've done the mountaintop multiop thing, and sat in the microwave
seat, and when a rover showed up and microwaves were busy we'd sked
him. I can't think of a situation where we would have told a rover
that we couldn't work him because we didn't need his grid! Maybe I'm
making too much of a fuss about some ops faux pas (did I say that with
my outside voice?) ..
On 9/13/07, Stephen Hicks, N5AC <n5ac@n5ac.com> wrote:
> The same situation also exists for rovers. For example, I might rove near a
> fixed station and work him on all bands while I'm close and get that grid on
> those bands. Later, if I am 300 miles away, all I can get for working him
> is QSO points. So for a difficult QSO that might take several minutes, I
> have to decide if I would be better off to proceed to the next grid and keep
> on moving on rather than spend that kind of time. I have often called a
> distant multiop station on 2m, asked to work the microwave station and
> received a "he's busy, but I'll tell him you'd like to work him." If I
> can't get a quick idea for a timeframe when I can work him, I know that it's
> just points for me (although multipliers for him). So I move on... I often
> hear about this later from fixed stations that aren't tracking me (why
> didn't we work you on xxx band in yyy grid?), but the ones who track me know
> where I am and generally work me on the bands I have in most grids.
>
> Steve, N5AC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mike Tessmer
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 18:24
> To: John D'Ausilio
> Cc: VHFcontesting@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Contest rules and rovering
>
> >received was disheartening .. "Let me check to see if we need your
> >grid".
>
>
> Seems pretty short sighted to pass up easy QSOs. Multipliers are sexy but
> QSOs win contests.
>
>
> 73, Mike K9NW
>
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