[NLRS] Rovermania: Reaching out to others to generate growth

[Todd Sprinkmann]

  Gerald,

  I know what you mean about the too-quick QSY.  But I can say first-hand 
that W9FZ was great at calling QRZ several times before he QSY'ed.  I was 
able to work him on all my bands in 7 of the 8 grids he roved in, with no 
difficulty at all.  Only reason I missed him in EN64 was that I slept in too 
late Sat. AM.

  It also helps if you can have more than one rig.  I would stay parked on 
Bruce's freq's of 222.140 and 432.140, just in case I missed him on 144.240. 
Often I would hear him lightly on either 222 or 432, and I'd be even more 
aware of where he was going.  And I was hearing him on 222 and 432 well into 
N and NW Wisconsin.

  A good rover or two in a direction that two population centers can hear at 
the same time can be a huge asset.  All the fixed stations have to do is be 
a little nimble with the VFO and the beam and you can really start racking 
up Q's, with both the rover, and with the fixed stations (who have to slide 
back and forth a little bit off the rover)  We've done this down here with 
rovers like K0PG and K9ILT, as well as K9JK.  Sure it can get hectic, but 
hey, considering we listen to dead air most of the time, I CRAVE the 
activity that contests bring.

  73,
  Todd  KC9BQA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerald" <geraldj at ispwest.com>
To: <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: [NLRS] Rovermania: Reaching out to others to generate growth


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> On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 10:27 -0500, jcplatt1 at mmm.com wrote:
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>> <snip>
>> One thing that seems to be missing in the formula is lack of a reasonably
>> serious multiop station.
>> <unsnip>
> <SNIP>
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> Trouble with the multiop station these days is that the rover or the
> other stations working through the bands don't pause long enough on any
> band but the one (2m typically) used for coordination to hear a tail
> ender. Used to be that a station (or one operator of a multiop station)
> could specialize in 432, another on 222, another on 1296, another on 2m)
> and could make a decent score. Today with this aberrant operating
> technique the single band station without the coordinating band often
> can't make any contacts at all. That station will hear lots of stations
> but as each makes a schedule for another band no amount of tail ending
> power will get contacts. The last thing heard is QSY, then silence. So
> there isn't much operating advantage to the multiop station, not like
> there used to be. Band switching even in the rover is too simple and
> quick. I'll make the claim that a multiband station could double its
> score by saying QRZ and then listening for ten or 15 seconds before
> changing to the next band scheduled. It just might be that both stations
> with the schedule could make several contacts before they had a chance
> to QSY IF THEY ONLY LISTENED BEFORE HITTING THE BAND SWITCH!!!!
>
> -- 
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
> Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer
> All content copyright, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson
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