The 20 percent rule has issues. Some people would delete contacts to avoid the
20 percent rule and the other party would get busted on the log checker. But
it could be tweeked.
If the rule read that all contacts are logged and the rover will assign points
and multipliers to a number of contacts no greater than 20 percent of his non
rover contact count. It would be workable in the software or hand math when
sending in a log.
This also shows why these groups now hide their logs from public scrutiny via
the ARRL committee structure.
The uglyness of the matter is that WAYNE”S group is morally flawed when it
comes to this issue. In my view he is taken his talents to a dark side. It is
sad when you have something so fundamentally flawed that you have to create
rules for one group’s unreasonable action, even after these actions were
directly addressed by the ARRL and a compromise was offered. The ARRL created
a “cease fire” on this issue and Wayne figured a work around.
He’s kind of like the Iranians sending in the Palestinians and Lebanese to do
their dirty work against Israel to irritate the US. When Isreal complains or
does something Iran says Israelis are the bad guys.
The ARRL has a flawed contest. They should not support it in its current
fashion or they should fix it. We all pay dues to have an honest contest. We
can not sit quiet because the ARRL may think there is no way to regulate Wayne.
So I as a rover who does not put roving on a high priority any more because of
Wayne’s group Am willing to give up my rover to rover QSO’s to eliminate the
cancer that is on the rover rules. I am sorry if I am sugar coating this too
much.
I think a percentage system could be worked out. The failure with the last rule
change is that they did not think about it skeptically in terms on how one man
who is on their committee could stick his finger in the eyes of the majority of
the committee. This is an ugly problem. If this was a town council he would be
ran out for not respecting the wishes of the committee as a whole. Not for
having a dissenting vote or set of ideals.
History has shown this behavior before. Congress says no money for the Contras,
and Ollie North does a work around on the behalf of the president. This is the
same thing here. The VUAC and ARRL stated their intent and Wayne engineered a
work around.
Sorry I had to use political terms, but it’s terms we can all relate too, even
if Ollie is your hero.
Like reporting crime and a meth epidemic, this controversy will go on until its
fixed. It would be sad if I loose all my rover to rover QSOs, but at least it
would make me want to play rover more.
K3uhf
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