[NLRS] Need your input - Rover Rules

[w0zq at aol.com]

Hello NLRS land.

As I announced during our NLRS business meeting at Aurora'07, the 
ARRL's VHF/UHF Advisory Committee (VUAC) is currently discussing the 
rover rules.   As your Dakota Division representative, I would like to 
ask each of you the following questions.   Please feel free to forward 
this to any other interested parties that I may have missed .... I will 
tally data from all sources.   Ask questions if you have any.

PLEASE RESPOND ONLY TO ME so that we do not clog up the reflector.   I 
promise to post a summary after I have collected all of your inputs.

73, Jon
W0ZQ

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Your Call:
Are you in the Dakota Division (Yes/No) ?
Please check one of the following four boxes:
(   )   I have never roved and I'm not interested in it.
(   )   I have never roved, but I have thought about trying it some 
time.
(   )   I rove on some occasions
(   )   I rove often.

For the following questions please state your position using the 
following scale (no, its not in dB).   You can add comments if you 
wish, or add them at the end - that's optional.
1 = Strongly Disagree
2 = Disagree
3 = Neither agree nor disagree (or, no opinion)
4 = Agree
5 = Strongly Agree.

1.    Do you think that captive roving is an issue in the Dakota 
Division ?    Captive roving is where a rover exclusively works one 
station.
2.    Do you think that the rules should be modified to support the 
family rule for roving ?   Currently, the General VHF Rules exclude 
this.
3.    Do you think that the rules should be modified to allow all 
rovers to use APRS ?    APRS contacts themselves would not count for 
contest points.
4.    Do you think that the rules should be modified to allow all 
rovers to include a nonparticipating driver ?   The suggested change is 
aimed at safety.
5.    Do you think that the rules should be changed to allow for a 
limited rover class?   A limited rover would follow the same rules as a 
Rover, but would compete with no more than any four bands of their 
choosing.
6.    To address issues around team roving and grid circling, for the 
rover and limited rover class, do you favor these proposed rules (vote 
on each one)
a)   For rover to rover contacts, for any given band, once a contact 
has been made those two rovers may not make contact again from any 
adjoining grid(s) for 30 minutes.
b)   If a rover makes more than 300 contacts, no more than 50% of their 
total can be made with other rovers.
7.   As rules may be created to exclude, or significantly limit,  grid 
circling and team roving from the rover and limited rover class, do you 
favor creating an unlimited rover category where these two rules would 
NOT apply ?   At this time, the suggestion is that the unlimited rover 
scores would not be included in club scoring (but limited and rover 
scores would).

Please provide me with any addition comments that you may have:


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