[FQP] FQP Mobile Category Rules

[k8bb at comcast.net]

The Ohio QSO Party has separate mobile and rover categories:

http://www.oqp.us/book/export/html/90

Its intention was to address this exact type of situation - that is, to 
distinguish between mobiles that are "capable of motion" at all times (no 
dipoles in trees, etc.) versus guys that mobile, yet stop here and there to 
set up dipoles, masts, radials, etc.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <K1to at aol.com>
To: <ku8e at bellsouth.net>; <fqp at kkn.net>
Cc: <k4bai at worldnet.att.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [FQP] FQP Mobile Category Rules


> Jeff -
>
> Thanks for your input.  Congrats on a very solid effort and thanks for 
> coming
> down to participate again!
>
> Several thoughts:
>
> 1)  N4PN's amp puts him into a different power category where he does not 
> get
> the 2x power multiplier, so I think that example is amply covered now, so 
> to
> speak.
>
> 2)  Hauling an antenna on a trailer is nothing new.  W5WMU did this years
> ago.  How on earth can we subdivide mobiles based on antenna size?  Is a
> trailer-based vertical that significantly better than one mounted on a low 
> bumper?
>
> 3)  The current rules do specify that mobiles should have antennas that 
> are
> capable of motion.  So the concept of throwing up a dipole or big vertical 
> in
> some  counties is not really consistent with the concept of a mobile. 
> This is
> where we have a hole in the rules and need further discussion to establish
> appropriate rules.  I asked this group before to point us to a set of 
> rules that
> does address this and got zero response.
>
> 73, Dan, K1TO
>
>
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