OK- FWIW I looked at this for the June contest (unable to participate in
Sept).
I was single op low power, with only 6 and 2M.
Removing the rovers from my log, I would have lost 1 grid out of 77 on 6M
and 7 of the 198 QSO's.
On 2M I would have lost 1 grid out of 29 and 9 of the 134 QSO's.
Bottom line would have gone down 6.6%
Chet, N8RA
-----Original Message-----
From: vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Nate Duehr
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 1:50 PM
To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
Subject: [VHFcontesting] Roving Thoughts (was: Re: grid circling bashing,
end it)
.....
Rovers are an insanely small minority of hams, and even a very small group
of the contest operators in the contest itself -- but probably account for
the vast majority of the winning fixed station's scores, since the contest
rewards working the most grid squares.
(It would be interesting to take away all the Rover contacts and see how it
affects the scores, just as a math/statistics exercise.)
Only Rovers can "fill in the holes", for the fixed stations!
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