[NLRS] Fwd: Club Competitiion for ARRL Contests

[jcplatt1 at mmm.com]

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Jon,

I have been at a grid corner when other rovers have been at a grid corner.
I
have felt no angst about working all four grids with the other rover,
because
the meeting was incidental and we were going our separate ways afterword.
I
think a practical definition of grid circling has to be established.
Having
more that two rovers circling the same grid corner or something like that
would help.   I would hate to lose the opportunity to work another rover
just
because they are close by.

73 De K0NY
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Clair, I could not agree more .... I think we are in brain sync.

For rovers, we have two ends of the spectrum.   On one end is what I would
call a "conventional" rover who works all, or almost all, fixed stations.
The other end of the spectrum is the grid circling rover who works almost
solely only their circling partner(s).    An example of this second group
is the recent W6's who generated 2 million plus points during the January
VHF contests.    Somewhere in-between is what we often do in our neck of
the woods .... work largely fixed stations, but if another rover pops up,
we work them too .... it adds to our fun.

So the devil is in defining what is and what isn't grid circling.     As a
rover, simply working other rovers is not grid circling.

On top of that, who really cares if two or three guys go out and have their
own "contest within a contest" ?   Let them have their fun.    I think that
this line of thinking is OK except for :
1)  that they are competing against other "conventional" rovers who will
always have a lower score, and
2)  what happens when they list an affiliated club and that club, with just
two or three members, blows away the big unlimited clubs with 50 and more
members  ?

73, Jon
W0ZQ