[PaQSO] Rover Division

[Ray Crampton]

My son and I have participated in the PA QSO party for the last eleven years in the Rover Division.

  Two years ago a station started classifying himself as a Rover but never moved from one county line and operated as multi/multi.  This did not seem to be in the spirit of the contest.  It allows a group to set up massive antennas and multiple rigs while we are putting up 20 ft dipoles in trees on the side of the road.

I do agree that a separate division should be set up for multi/multi stations since single transmitter stations can can not easily compete with multi transmitter stations. But this does not solve the Rover Division problem.

The way the rules now stand, any portable station multi single or whatever can participate in the Rover division without ever having to set up and tear down and "rove".

I recommend that the rules for the Rover division be modified to require that a Rover station must put out at least 3 counties.  That way only Rovers could be in the Rover Division

Ray AB4YZ (Roanoke, VA)
Ray Kn4SK (Tucson, AZ)