>I do hope that I will never pretend to think that anybody has any more
>right to situate themselves on a frequency than anybody else during a
>contest, including myself.
I wish someone would tell that to the SSTVers on 14.230. During CQWWPX I
had been working a run of Europeans for about an hour around 14.233.
These jerks thought I was too close to "their" frequency and decided to
start transmitting a little higher and QRM'd me. Needless to say I
continued on and saw only a modest dip in my run rate. Then one of them
had the audacity to yell at me and tell me that I was QRMing them!
That's when I lost it! I eventually had to take a break and so I left
soon after that, but it is annoying when someone thinks they "own" a
frequency. If they ask me nicely to move I likely would as a net control
op did later that afternoon farther up the band. He asked nicely and I
moved and even worked him for a point and multiplier! But no one owns
any frequency and frankly QRM is part of any contest.
73,
Jon
KE9NA
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The Second Amendment is NOT about duck hunting!
Jon Ogden
jono@enteract.com
www.qsl.net/ke9na
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
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