[MiQP-Mail] Rover or Portaable Category for MiQP?

[Hank Greeb]

Just a thought - OQP has a Rover category, ILQP has a portable category 
(they even allow "parking" or "setting up" on the intersections of 
counties, and claiming up to four contacts/counties per station worked - 
which proved very interesting this year for me).

For example, I've located three spots in public locations within about 
10 miles of each other for Ionia, Montcalm, and Kent counties.  It would 
be interesting to set up in each of these places with portable antennae, 
and rotate between them every two hours or so (so that propagation 
variations could be washed out and each location given the same 
probability to be worked by stations at various distances from these 
locations).  The first round would include antenna erection, though I'd 
plan to leave the antennae up until the end of the contest.  (In Ohio it 
seems that folks are penalized because they have to move their antennae 
when they're operating as rovers - they can't come back to the same spot 
without suffering the downtime of antenna erection.  Therefore the early 
counties favor 40 and 20 metres, often with skip zones on 40 so Ohio 
stations don't hear those counties, and the out of state stations may 
not hear the later counties because propagation on 80 isn't all that long.)

Either allowing setting up at a county line (for both mobiles and 
portables), or allowing portables/rovers to operate with antennae which 
are initially transported in one vehicle but left up during the contest 
period, might add a bit of a "zinger" to the contest.

Now, I'll run for cover while the flak descends upon me for such a brash 
suggestion.

73 de n8xx Hg