This is a prime example! I saw several examples of this on Saturday. I would
be working a station, and a BIG GUN contester starts calling CQ right on top of
me, I work him so I know he can hear me, but he ignored the statements that the
frequency is in use by me. I'm not naming names this time, next time I will.
<VENTING>I had it reinforced why I don't normally do Phone contests, they are
the rudest bunch on the air I have seen, and this weekend was one of the worst
examples of bad operating I have seen in a long time. I'm going back to CW and
RTTY contesting as my primary mode of operation. I'm sorry to say that I'm an
amateur radio operator when I see such bad examples of operation. Some of the
big guns were also the most overdriven splattering signals on the air. Please
*** CLEAN UP YOUR ACT ***. If you don't know who you are more of us "little
pistols" can surely supply callsigns.</VENTING OFF>
I run a small station; 500 Watts max to Dipoles in the trees at 45 feet and an
A3S on the roof at 25 feet AGL.
Gordon - N1MGO
On 27 Oct 2007 at 13:50, doug smith wrote:
> OK, so I finally got enough laundry done to sit down & try CQing for a
> few minutes in the CQ WW SSB. Running 500 watts to a 7-el tribander
> at 20m, I'm not the loudest signal on the band but I'm not a QRP
> lightweight either.
>
> 21.405 sounds open. I ask (twice) whether it's in use. No response.
> Switch to CW, send a dit-stream to double-check the tuning on the amp
> - no response. Ask yet again (on SSB) whether the frequency is in
> use. No response.
>
> Start calling CQ. Get a few answers, including Europeans. Not much
> rate, but it's something. Until, about ten minutes later:
>
> "CQ CONTEST OSCAR ECHO TWO SIERRA OSCAR ECHO TWO SIERRA".
>
> Right out of the clear blue sky. Didn't ask whether there was anyone
> there, didn't listen before transmitting, just suddenly appeared &
> decided 21.405 was their private property. Didn't go away when it
> became obvious there was another station there. [0]
>
> We're darned lucky the station they stomped on was another contester.
> If it had been a schedule, ragchew, or net (however useless) on
> 21.405, this behavior would have generated at least two
> contest-haters, ready to lobby their local IARU society to ban our
> pursuit. I wonder how many of the anti-contest letters that regularly
> appear in QST and RadComm were provoked by similar behavior?
>
> There have been similar complaints posted here before, but I guess
> they finally caught me on a day when I was sleep-deprived enough to
> name names. OE2S is not the *only* guilty party (and there are plenty
> here in the States - it's not just a European thing by any means) but
> they *are* a guilty party.
>
> This kind of crap HAS GOT TO STOP. It's going to get us exiled to
> woefully inadequate slivers of the bands. If I'd been recording the
> contest, a recording *would* be on the way to the Contest Committee.
> Are we going to have to get a few folks DQd, or are we just going to
> go ahead & provoke the non-contesters into driving us out of business?
>
> [0] I know damned well they could hear me. I was (until they showed
> up) working stations in bordering countries - and had worked OE2S
> themselves just about an hour earlier. And, when I refused to simply
> disappear when they started CQing, at one point they pretended (or
> thought) I answered their CQ - and got my call 100% right. This kind
> of thing can - and does - happen by mistake when QRM/QSB conditions
> are poor. What happened here today **was no mistake**.
> ==
> Doug Smith W9WI
> Pleasant View, TN EM66
> http://www.w9wi.com
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