On Oct 1, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
> If we want to be really serious about this, contest rules should
> declare a "guard band" around the beacons, and stations violating it
> should be publicly disqualified.
I think we can take courteous operating seriously without having
write every possible scenario into a set of draconian rules for each
contest.
> "Gentlemen's agreements" are fine in theory but they simply do not
> work in a high pressure situation.
I disagree. With proper education and gentle peer pressure, we can
avoid the worst of this problem.
> Ask the 160 meter crowd how successful they are.
The 160m problem is solved. There was a small group of folks who
deliberately set up a net in order to cause conflicts with CW DXers.
They continued this nonsense for years, until Riley Hollingsworth
stepped in a got these guys to discontinue their operation in that
part of the band.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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