Hi Alan,
The /R serves a number of purposes:
1. It alerts other stations that the /R may be going to other grids.
This can be watched for / queried.
2. It alerts fixed stations that they need to pay attention to this
station as it may be in a rare grid.
3. It alerts fixed stations that the station in question may not be
available for very long.
4. It makes writing software that correctly allocates dupes or valid
contacts for both rovers and fixed stations much easier.
5. VHF contests allow a station to submit both a fixed entry e.g. from
home and a rover entry. Its hard to have this work without providing a
simple on-the-air discriminator, such as "/R".
I find having the rover sign "/R" extraordinarily useful and consider
its use to be a major "plus". I pay special attention when I hear the
"/R" as I am tuning the band. I am sure there are many other positives
for using it. But these pop immediately to mind.
Eliminating the "/R" would not be wise.
73,
Roger Rehr W3SZ
On 8/9/2016 1:25 PM, Alan Larson wrote:
Ok, I'll confess. One rule I don't understand is: Rovers MUST sign
"rover" on Pone and /R on CW and digital modes after their call sign.
I don't see the benefit. If a station shows up in a new grid, I should
know I can work him again, but I don't see a reason why he should be
required to include that information as a modifier of his call sign.
The rule change in the UHF contest to allow a rover to exist in a single
grid is good, it corrects a basic flaw of the previous rules. (What if
someone is roving, signing /r, but never makes it out of the starting grid?)
Alan
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