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

[KB0DCO Thomas]

Hi Guys,

      I haven't roved in some time.... The contest rules seem to be
more confusing to me now.

      If I rove..... I just used only 3 bands that I had 6, 2 & 432.
On 3 beams on 25 feet of masting. I just go drive to a 4 corners
grids... set up in one grid and work some stations barefoot no amps...
then I tear it down, laying the antennas on the truck drive over to
the next grid and set it up again and repeat this process. If I have
the energy to do it. I wanted to have a friend come along to help me
out, but now the rules don't seem to let you.

      I'm not really sure anymore.... "Rover" should be for the guys
who drive and drive and drive around....   There should be another
type of rover where you go some where set up... operate for some time
then tear down... move to next grid set up again to operate. Like
maybe a "Semi-Rover" for a category.

    Then as far as scoring..... is there a new version of VHF-DX? The
Last one I have is Ver. 4.1.56.

        I lost interest in rovering by myself... in the cold.... and I
wish the other one was not so close to Field Day. Cause I put a lot
into F.D. and it's a lot of work for set up and tear down...

       Well I wouldn't mind riding along with someone as a co-operator
in a rover... But I had no one asking me..... Hi Hi.

Thomas
KBØDCO




On 12/15/07, John (JK) Kalenowsky, K9JK <hamk9jk at ameritech.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "EAJacobson" <eajacobson at isd.net >
> To: <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 18:36
> Subject: Re: [NLRS] New Rover Rules are here.
>
>
> >
> >
> > Hmmm...interesting if you look at:
> >
> >>2.3.3. Rover vehicles  must transport all the equipment, power
> >>supplies, and
> >>antennas used at each  operating site.
> >
> > and
> >
> >>2.5. Unlimited Rover. Same as "Rover" class above, but Unlimited
> >>Rovers may
> >>use more than two operators and are exempt from rules 2.3.3 and
> >>2.3.8.
> >
> > Does that mean an Unlimited Rover could drive from QTH to QTH and
> > use existing fixed towers and antennas?
> >
> > Hmmm...
> >
> > 73,
> > Ed
> > WB0VHF
> >
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Thomas
KBØDCO
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