Neal,
As a low power contester this happens to me more times than I want to think
about. Once is too many times. Anyway, for my money you did the only
thing you could. There are times in almost every contest when I use every
colorful descriptive term I learned while in the Navy (not on the air),
count to ten and move on.
The bottom line is the fact that to stay on "your" frequency you will not
be getting the contacts/score you would get elsewhere, and the score's the
thing. Show the other guy up by outscoring him!
73,
Jay, K4OGG
At 10:36 AM 3/27/2006, you wrote:
>I don't usually gripe about other operators, but I feel I should set the
>record straight on this one.
>
>Sunday afternoon I was working 15M, running Europe. When the occasional
>stateside station called, I would switch to my west fixed 3el yagi to
>work the station. Periodically, I would turn the main antenna to the
>west and call CQ. On one such occasion, V73RY called me (who I had
>already worked), and politely asked that I QSY because I was splattering
>on his frequency 2KHz away. I explained that I had been on this
>frequency for several hours and as he was S9+30db that I was just
>overloading his receiver. When asked what my signal strength was, he
>admitted it was also very strong. At which point he went away. I
>turned my antenna back to Europe and continued. A bit latter I turned
>back to the west. Soon after V73RY responded by calling CQ on my
>frequency! I politely asked him to QSY, which he ignored. I continued
>my CQ and worked a number of stations. But now I had many stateside
>stations asking me to QSY so they could work him. I was now in the
>position of having explaining to them that he came on top of my
>frequency. At which point, I got called all sorts of names. I decided
>that discretion was the better part and went to 20M.
>
>I invite your comments and suggestions on other ways I could handle this
>situation in the future.
>
>Neal, K4EA (NJ4U)
>
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