[Rover] ROVER/R SK 03/07/2004

[Tim ( KE3HT )]

Have you ever heard the saying, "the silent majority can never win"? How
many of you think the rovers are being heard by the ARRL? Is anybody on
this VHF Rules committee a Rover? 

Recent Rover Poll,
Having only four people respond including myself may be a sign that
apathy, like much of amateur radio, is going to kill Rovering. 

ROVER/R   SK   03/07/2004 

Rover Poll Results found at:
http://www.ke3ht.org/roverpoll.html

ARRL Posting:
http://www.ke3ht.org/roverpoll.html#arrl

If you think your mere single comment can't help, YOUR WRONG!
Read the ARRL posting (if you have not done so already) and e-mail a
reply to:
vhf-contest-proposal@arrl.org

LET THE ROVER VOICE BE HEARD! 


 ,,,, Tim KE3HT/R  ke3ht@ke3ht.org

http://www.ke3ht.org/rover



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I think the non-Rovers have way to many good ideas that seem to help
them and hurt us rovers. I was wondering if the Rover community would
want to take a polling sample of questions to see how we stand on the
new proposals? Where does the silent majority of Rovers stand? We could
then take this poll and send it to the ARRL as an indication of the
Rover communities thoughts on the proposed changes.

If anyone has a polling site like Yahoo, this would be a great thing to
use it on. Roverlog has used the Yahoo and its easy to use. If nobody
has this access I could probably do it by collecting e-mail and putting
it on a web site.

Examples of questions that pertain to the ARRL ideas for contesting
improvements:
1. Would you favor making the June contest a 50mhz - 1296mhz only?
	yes
	no
2. Would you favor the elimination of the August UHF contest?
	yes
	no
3. Would you favor giving stations only 1 point for contacting
	rovers when other stations get more?
	yes
	no
4. Do you favor reverting to the "OLD Rover Rules" ?
	yes
	no
5. Do you favor changing the 10ghz and up contest to include 2.3ghz and
up?
	yes
	no
6. Do you favor grid circulating with a category for that method?
	yes
	no
7. Do you favor captive rovering? (No=you might consider means to
control
it)
	yes
	no
8. Do you think Rover participation has gone down in the past three
years?
	yes
	no

These are just some of the things proposed that could help or hurt us.