[NLRS] Sounds like "Multi-Station"...NOT Roving (was: Re: New Rover Rules...

[W0ZQ at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/15/2007 7:32:23 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
hamk9jk at ameritech.net writes:
INTERESTING observation Ed.

If *that* IS  the case and intent, might the category be more 
appropriately called  "Multi-STATION"? While there is "rove" (moving 
among the multiple  stations/sites of equipment deployment), it 
certainly does NOT sound like  "roving" to me.

I can see it now...and NOT to pick on teh Grid Pirates or  suggest that 
they would actually DO something like this...the K8GP gang at  Spruce 
Knob would work ALMOST the entire contest from there, signing K8GP/R,  
and allow what ever time it took for an operator to get from FM08 to 
ONE  other Grid, make ONE contact from that different Grid, signing 
K8GP/R (from  FM09, perhaps?). (For that matter, what's to prevent one 
of the operators  from leaving to do that while the station is in a 
slow period, say EARLY  Sunday morning, to get to a different grid, 
coordinating with the Spruce  Knob location to stop transmitting from 
there, make that contact, and then  returning?) THEN they have a RECORD 
"Unlimited Rover" score (that probably  COULD count for PVRC...unless 
the provision that scores from Unlimited Rover  entries, as I 
understood was IN the VUAC's proposal, is ultimately  incorporated).

73, JK



Good morning John.   
 
Yes, your scenario above could happen.   Again, its the VUACs  intent that 
Unlimited Rover scores should not count in club scores .....  something that I 
think was missed when the rules got translated into the  published version so I 
have faith that this will be fixed (although I could be  wrong !).   
 
Assuming that it is fixed I don't think that the Grid Pirates would do this  
as it bumps them out of their multi-op class, their score would not count for  
their club, and they would probably lose to an Unlimited Rover  employing 
more imaginative operating technics under the new rules .... for  example, I 
think a grid circling rover (or four) has beaten the W2SZ multi-op  score.  I 
don't see this as a threat.
 
The up side with the Unlimited Rover class is the opportunity of  
experimentation that it offers .... with the old rules we were pretty much  locked into 
one or two op's with that one vehicle carrying everything.   Well, that 
category still exists for those who enjoy that challenge, but we also  have a new, 
more open, category - the Unlimited Rover.   
 
73, Jon
W0ZQ




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