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Re: [VHFcontesting] What is really "wrong" with the ARRL Rover-category

To: VHF Contesting eMail Remailer <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>, w2ev@yahoo.com, Duane - N9DG <n9dg@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] What is really "wrong" with the ARRL Rover-category rules.
From: Paul Kiesel <k7cw@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: k7cw@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:10:39 -0800 (PST)
List-post: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com">mailto:vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Well, I don't know about "anger and angst among the greater amateur 
population."  I guess I must be in the minority. ;-)

K7CW

--- On Sun, 2/15/09, Duane - N9DG <n9dg@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Duane - N9DG <n9dg@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] What is really "wrong" with the ARRL 
Rover-category rules.
To: "VHF Contesting eMail Remailer" <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>, 
w2ev@yahoo.com
Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 6:08 AM

Very well put, and sums it up nicely....

Duane
N9DG


--- On Sun, 2/15/09, Ev Tupis <w2ev@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Ev Tupis <w2ev@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] What is really "wrong" with the ARRL
Rover-category rules.
> To: "VHF Contesting eMail Remailer"
<vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
> Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 7:57 AM
> No...this is *not* Rover bashing.  I *love* them...and have
> been one (and probably will be one again in the future). 
> This is about the rules and what they do to everyone
> involved.
> 
> It is a dispassionate explanation of what is actually
> causing the anger and angst among the greater Amateur radio
> population.  It all boils down to a single point:
> 
> The rules encourage the Rovers to operate in their own,
> independent CWAC (Contest Within A Contest), and receive
> host-sponsor recognition.  That's it.  Done.  Finis.
> 
> They:
> 1. Have their own scoring system that is different from
> that of all others
> 2. Are encouraged to operate differently than others
> 3. Are recognized for doing so (while vilified by others
> for simply following the rules
> 
> Even N6NB on his website refers to the thrill of the road
> rally as opposed to the thrill of communicating with as many
> other stations as possible (which is the stated objective of
> ARRL VHF contests).
> 
> Until this is addressed...expect the turmoil to continue.
> 
> Ev, W2EV
> 
> 
> 
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