Jim you are technically correct. The grid circling dance has somewhat ended.
However the bunch in California has since roved in a caravan working QSOs that
are in the vast majority with them selves. When the team members turn in logs
with the nearly identical number of QSOs and multipliers as the other members
then there is an issue. An issue that can only be proven by shining the light
of day on the logs. An issue you boys resist. If you are proud of your efforts
produce the logs. If the ARRL is proud of their contest make the logs available
to members. Otherwise it is a big political farce on several levels.
I apologize for calling them grid circlers, I will suggest calling them the
lunchbox station distance challenged QSO caravan. OR the LSDCQC
The group you participated with would now be stupid to grid circle the old way
because you would max out the qsos before you had the opportunity to max out
the grid squares. The group had all nearly identical multipliers amongst tem
members even though some limited rovers were on different bands.
THE RULES HAVE MADE IT EASIER FOR YOU GUYS. Now your whole pack can enter one
square and max out the multipliers working each other and move to the next. You
don’t have to seek an exact corner anymore because you would run out of
multipliers before QSOs. A simple south to north run up I-5 should work
quicker.
If the group activated 12 grids then that’s 48 mults per limited rover. That’s
why the gear in a caravan is split up so the traditional rover would get all 10
multipliers now just from other sources. So a limited would offer 48 grids on
low bands while another limited in the caravan would offer 48 grid multipliers
on higher bands.
This must sound confounding to a non rover. But this is how convoluted its
getting! That’s why a fix with a limited percentage or rover to rover contacts
is needed. This rule would re-enforce the stated encouragement to work as many
stations as possible rule in the vhf contest.
I put up the log summaries as antidotal evidence of my position last fall or
early this spring.
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