[PaQSO] Rover Division

[Michael Coslo]

On Dec 14, 2005, at 9:16 AM, Ray Crampton wrote:

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

	Hi Ray and all. I already replied to Ray in Personal email to me,  
but since he posted here too, I'll add my comments to the group.


>   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.

	It also disqualifies them for any awards. The rules for Mobile and  
Rover are that only single transmitter entries are eligible for  
awards. So they aren't in competition with Rovers  doing Rover as it  
was meant to be done.


>
> 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.

	As noted before, there isn't any competition.

>
> 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".

	Yup - that is what I am trying to fix. Get these good folk who want  
to operate M/M portable where they belong!


>
> 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
>

	I'm not terribly comfortable with this idea. We don't want to start  
dictating how and where the Rovers and Mobiles move. For the purposes  
of this particular argument, it sounds reasonable. (If the stations  
were actually in competition with each other) The problem is that  
there are always a few mobiles that get on the air for a short time,  
and only in one or two counties. They would be cut out of the party,  
or would have to enter as a home station. Cure one problem - cause  
another. I want to have OPs where they belong, not shift the problem  
from one group to the other. I must emphasize this is not a  
hypothetical issue. There are several OPs that would be afffected in  
just this year!

	Then we have out of state mobile entrants.......

	

	- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -