I put Rover in the subject so all of those subscribed to the reflector
who don't like receiving email can easily delete it :-)
>This is where I have a "problem" with limiting the number of QSO's with
>another rover station to some arbitrary number, unless the formula for
>determining
>this rule can be made to be understandable to the participants without
>unnecessarily modifying the "normal" behavior of "uncoordinated" rovers who
>happen across other rovers during the contest.
I don't like this idea either. I believe this is likely why the number was
set so high in the current rules [100].
Here is an arbitrary scenario:
Rover A is northbound in EM77 and hears Rover B. Rover B is southbound in
EM79. They run their 10 bands for the first 10 QSO's. As both enter EM78,
they run another 10 QSO's, 20 total so far. When A hits EM79, and B hits EM77,
they run again and now have 30 each. And this could likely hit 50 or 60 QSO's
for each Rover in an "un-circled" meeting. I don't like the idea of penalizing
Rover A and B in this scenario.
I don't like the idea of restricting the "re-activation" of grids either, but
it may be the solution that hurts the least...
Here is a thought:
Drop grids as mults. Give one multiplier for each unique call sign
contacted.... Did I come up with this, or did someone else already propose it?
We have been over this ground so many times I can't remember... Sorry, I
haven't had my coffee yet this morning...
73
Dan
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