[NLRS] A different way to rove

[Brent Casavant]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 jcplatt1 at mmm.com wrote:

> See below for a cut & paste off of the 3830 contest reflector.   What Wayne
> and crew did is not my style of roving, but perhaps they had fun.  Looks
> like they may have had 11 bands as 242/11 = 22 and they claimed to have
> activated 22 grids.   One thing for sure, they were probably tired pups
> when done with this.  It will be interesting to see how it may affect club
> aggregate scoring .... Wayne did not indicate a club affiliation (or not).

In my experience this type of roving is much more common in and around
Texas.  In one of my first VHF contests (with W5TC, the Univ. of Okla.
Amateur Radio Club), one of the rovers we worked had the goal of activating
all the grid squares in Oklahoma.  This would have been circa 1997-1998.

Many rovers seemed to operate while in motion, and only came to a stop
in a grid for 15-30 minutes (if at all) before moving on.  They were
more likely to stop in more difficult outlying grids, but just run-n-gun
in urban grids.  As a group they were also *very* good about making sure
everyone they worked knew exactly when they'd be in their next grid, and
which grid it would be (i.e. "We should be in EM14 in 20 minutes").

Brent

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