Or, simply enter the CLASSIC ROVER category. You know, the ORIGINAL rover
class, before all the 'level the playing field' BS happened...
Is it REALLY that big a deal that you can ONLY make 100 Q's with another rover
??? That's 10 bands in each of 10 grids ! If this IS a big deal to you
rovers, I can certainly start to understand WHY people think grid-circling is a
problem.
Complaining about ONLY 100 Q's per station ?!?!? Come on...
Jay W9RM
--- On Wed, 5/27/09, Paul St. John <n6dnpaul@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have to agree with the criticisms. I hate to sound
> like someone who is throwing a fit, and I'm not going to get
> into a shouting match, but the facts are that I spent many
> years and a lot of time and money equiping my rover station
> so that I could run a complete VHF/UHF/Microwave station in
> a small SUV. Now I find I either have to get rid of
> all of the higher band stuff, or drive through a lot of
> grids where I can't possibly make any contacts on the higher
> bands because of the limitation of rover-to-rover contacts,
> mountainous geography and low microwave activity except in
> the Los Angeles basin. It has really taken away a
> great deal of my interest and incentive. When I go out
> again, I will likely end out on a hilltop and not roving,
> which will drastically reduce the number of microwave
> contacts and grids that I made available to others for
> many years under the old rules.
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