I am certainly not a "big gun" station albeit an avid contester. I have an
A-3 on a 42 ft tower for 10-15-20-40m and a G5RV for 80m. I finally found a
spot at 28.952 and ran over 100 QSOs and later found a spot on 15m in between
some others, but as far as I know I wasn't bothering them and they were not
bothering me and ran another 100 QSOs. In several instances other stations
tried to move me off by transmitting on "my" frequency but I just held my
ground and keep making QSOs and they finally got the picture and realized
they couldn't run me off.
Why do I bother to relate this you might ask? Prior to this contest I always
just S&P and never called CQ, but thanks to all the discussion I read on this
reflector about frequency stealing, I got brave and tried something different
and all I can say is that I am glad I did. My score went up, my number of
QSOs went up and my number of multipliers went up. I WILL NO LONGER BE
INTIMIDATED BY THE "BIG GUNS." I can't remember when I had so much fun in a
contest.
TNX ES 73,
George KF3BE
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