I like the new rules, and the clarification regarding the Limited Rover class.
Thank you ARRL and the hard working people who made it possible.
There is a good reason for keeping the Limited Rover class limited to the lower
four bands: Simplification. Why create yet another class of operation where
there are inherent variables in the bands of operation, and yet more room for
complaining about lack of a "level playing field"?
Those who want to operate on 902 and above can do so, in the Classic or
Unlimited Rover classes, and they can have lots of fun doing it. What's the
matter - can't you compete in those classes? Stop complaining and compete.
I suspect that the Limited Multi-Operator Band Rules were not changed because
there was no reason to do so. Those of us who have competed in that class know
about the trade-offs between 222 and 1296 operation, and we're not
grid-circling, either. In short, the circumstances for that class of operation
are different from those faced by Rovers.
Regarding the ARRL's change of rule procedure, there are those who would
criticize because they are too slow in changing rules and those who criticize
because they moved too fast. Please, cut them some slack.
73, Mike K6NC
-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Duehr [mailto:nate@natetech.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 06:16 PM
To: ''VHF Contesting Reflector''
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] [VHF] Changes to ARRL VHF Contest Rules
On Tue, 26 May 2009 16:03:10 -0500, "Les Rayburn" said: > Hat's off to the
league for this one. -------- RULE WORDING: Couldn't the rule have been just as
effective by saying: "At least three bands submitted by a Limited Rover must be
432 MHz or lower. The fourth band may be any band allowed in the contest."
Wasn't that REALLY the ORIGINAL intent? Seems like that would have worked
better, and would have kept the 222 "favoritism" out of it, and also killed off
the weird new four-band microwave rovers that weren't intended. -------- One
more -- here's a reasonable question that will be nothing more than trouble:
Why didn't the *Limited Multi-Operator band rules* change to match the Limited
Rover rule? If Rovers in the "Limited" category can't use 902, or 1.2 GHz, or
anything else above 432, why can a fixed station? Are they special? -------- A
final administrative point: Weren't the 2009 rules ALREADY PUBLISHED on the
website, prior to this change? Perhaps it would be smarter n
ot to publish the rules until they're FULLY BAKED? I might be wrong on that
last one, but weren't they up there? -------- This change may have "protected"
the Limited Rovers from the "multi-microwave rover"... but if they had 927 FM
or a nice new rig with 1.2 GHz in it... they just got totally hosed by this
overly-restrictive change, for no good reason. No hat's off from me. Nate WY0X
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