There are lots of scenarios where a person might want to be a one-grid
rover:
1. Anyone who must drive somewhere during the contest. For example,
someone who has to quit contesting from home and must go to work (same
grid) during the contest. This person could enter a second log as /R.
2. A person doing Summits on the Air activations during the contest.
They might do multiple summits but in the same grid.
3. Bicycle mobile--and too far away from a grid boundary to activate
two grids
4. Equine mobile.
5. Marine mobile in a lake that doesn't cross grids.
6. Pedestrian mobile, skiing mobile, snowmobile mobile, jogging mobile,
roller-blade mobile, etc. People like to combine their other passions
with ham radio. Let 'em!
A person doing mobile in a car and only activating one grid is likely
not very seriously contesting, but if it adds to the activity (without
adding a new category), it seems like a positive change.
Darryl
ww7d
On 06/16/2015 09:02 AM, Zack Widup wrote:
The way the rules are now, you cannot work a station more than once from
one grid. A mobile station can only work stations once if that person stays
in one grid. I don't understand why a person would want to do other than
stay in one place and call themselves "portable" if staying in a single
grid. And it's not more than about 35 miles or so to any next 4-character
grid over most of the USA.
So why not just travel to another grid and make a few QSO's? Many Rovers
work people while in motion, traveling to the next grid. I don't see any
reason to add a category or change the rules. The only time working a
station from more than one spot in a single grid square may be of benefit
is on the bands 24 GHz and higher. But most operation up there takes place
in the 10+ GHz contest, which has different rules than the VHF contests.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Keith Morehouse <w9rm@calmesapartners.com>
wrote:
Changing the Rover description to allow a single grid operation would
be the EASIEST, but would sort of violate the spirit of roving. I
didn't want to suggest changing any rule, just adding a clarification
to an existing category. I'm not in favor of creating a actual MOBILE
category.
Jay W9RM
Keith J Morehouse
Managing Partner
Calmesa Partners G.P.
Olathe, CO
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Bob K0NR - email list <list@k0nr.com>
wrote:
Jay,
Interesting idea. This does look like a "clean up" issue in the rules.
I was thinking the Rover categories could just be changed to allow
staying
in one grid. Either approach could work. The mobile stations would
probably
be at a disadvantage either way, which could lead to Yet Another Entry
Category.
73, Bob K0NR
On 6/15/2015 10:28 PM, Keith Morehouse wrote:
I have heard this complaint for quite a while and agree its a
problem,Jay
although I never equated it with the growth of VHF contesting. I now
see that it could.
This should be a simple rule change. Add a footnote to the definition
of single operator that allows entry to a mobile station guided and
operated by a single person and not connected to a antenna structure
considered permanent. Under single op rules, the mobile station would
be allowed to traverse as many grids as the operator wished but could
only contact unique stations once. This could be taken a step further
by adding the same definition to multi-op classes, allowing mobile
operation in a single vehicle by more then one person. The addition
of this simple definition would not affect the current 500 meter fixed
station circle, or whatever the criteria is for a fixed station.
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