[MiQP-Mail] Rover category

[Hank Greeb]

I'm putting in a plug for the contest committee to consider a rover 
category for 2009.  My opinion is that this would spice up the contest, 
and allow more stations to work rare counties.  With mobiles, if 
propagation isn't right for the band(s) chosen in the 30 or so minutes 
of operation in a county, that's a dead county for many folks.  A rover 
could set up within 600' of a four county intersection, and move every 3 
or 4 hours from county to county, so that the 3 or 4 counties could be 
on the air in the afternoon when 40, 20, and lower wavelengths have good 
propagation, and in the evening with 80/75 has shorter propagation.  Who 
knows?  If we could get enough rovers perhaps we could offer a Worked 
All Michigan Counties award as part of the award structure?

I've also suggested that setting up within 600' of a 2, 3, or 4 county 
intersection as a rover and allowing it to count for 2, 3, or 4 counties 
(Such as is done for the Illinois QSO party, the Oklahoma QSO party, and 
possibly others) might be an interesting twist on being a rover. I'd 
suggest the contest committee look at this possibility.....

Now, I'll run for cover, because this is the 2nd, and possibly the third 
time I've broached the subject, and I've suffered flak, sometimes 
severe, each time I've made the suggestion.

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