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Re: [VHFcontesting] Endorse Rover Rules Revisions EXCEPT the 30 Q Limit

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Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Endorse Rover Rules Revisions EXCEPT the 30 Q Limit
From: Ev Tupis <w2ev@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: w2ev@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:40:19 -0800 (PST)
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--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Steve Clifford <k4gun.r@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll also be that you'll be glad you don't have to select one
> single operating location per grid nor that you'll have to ignore
> stations that you hear while driving through a grid
> you have already activated.

<tongue-in-cheek>
Let's give non-Rovers this same ability, then.  Say...QRP Portable, for 
instance.

One needs only 4 lunchbox operators to meet the QRP Portable station at each 
corner of the "home" Grid-4 and work them on A-through-L.  This results in a 
little over 39k in score...from having 4 calls in the log.
</tongue-in-cheek>

The result? An overall #2 log in the June 2008 VHF contest, in the QRP Portable 
category - eclipsing 33 other participants.

Double the lunchbox rovers to 8 and they catapult to a #1 win in the QRP 
Portable category, with 8 calls in the log.  Sorry KA1LMR...those 409 QSO's 
that you worked hard for got you a second place showing to someone who "worked 
the system" rather than "worked to communicate."

Alas...only the rover category has that advantage...and the endless controversy 
that comes along for the ride.

Ev, W2EV



      
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