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

[Bob K0NR]

Tim,
Sorry, but I didn't respond to the poll, even though I am often a rover
in the VHF contests. I prefer to send my comments in directly to the
ARRL committee and I will indicate that I rove sometimes. I don't see
that much value in yes/no polls...I think the committee will need to be
persuaded with the reasoning behind the yes or no.

73,
Bob K0NR
--- "Tim ( KE3HT )" <ke3ht@ke3ht.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------Previous Posting-------------------------------------
> 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.
> 
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