[CQ-Contest] losing run frequency

[Bruce Makas]

I've got another situation that has happened to me and I'm interested how
others have reacted:

I tend to establish my run frequencies higher in the band; in this case I
was in the 14260 or 270 area with a nice European run going on Sunday
afternoon when someone landed right on top of me and started up a net. It
was the Greek American friendship net or something like that. When I got
his attention and told him that I had been here for a while, he said that
they had met on this frequency at this time for years and that I had no
right to be on "their" frequency. I can appreciate the inconvenience the
contest was causing them but I wanted to keep the frequency and stayed
there. Obviously the European members of the net were not happy and let me
know every time I was not transmitting. I accepted the reduced rate for a
while but this was going no where and after 15 or 20 minutes when one of
the 2x1 Italian contest stations with a 40 over signal came on I gave up
and left.

Was I right? What would others have done? How do you handle this situation?

73,  Bruce Makas, K1MY
     Cape Elizabeth, Maine
     207/767-8150
     k1my at nlis.net


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>From k5zd at ma.ultranet.com" <k5zd at ma.ultranet.com  Thu Mar 12 23:53:47 1998
From: k5zd at ma.ultranet.com" <k5zd at ma.ultranet.com (Randy Thompson)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 23:53:47 -0000
Subject: [CQ-Contest] RE: [YCCC] losing run frequency
Message-ID: <01BD4E12.595EBA00.k5zd at ma.ultranet.com>

When you have the misfortune to be attacked by a "net", it is usually 
better for your score to move rather than fight.  After all, the fact that 
these people all come to the same frequency day (week) after day (week) 
means they probably have nothing better to do.   And certainly have more of 
a vested interest in the frequency than you do (after all, they own it!).

As bad as being on the net frequency is... the best place to be is just 
next to one.  Then you have the full resources of the net making sure the 
space between you and them is kept perfectly clear!

Randy, K5ZD

On Thursday, March 12, 1998 11:09 PM, Bruce Makas [SMTP:k1my at nlis.net] 
wrote:
> I've got another situation that has happened to me and I'm interested how
> others have reacted:
>
> I tend to establish my run frequencies higher in the band; in this case I
> was in the 14260 or 270 area with a nice European run going on Sunday
> afternoon when someone landed right on top of me and started up a net. It
> was the Greek American friendship net or something like that. When I got
> his attention and told him that I had been here for a while, he said that
> they had met on this frequency at this time for years and that I had no
> right to be on "their" frequency. I can appreciate the inconvenience the
> contest was causing them but I wanted to keep the frequency and stayed
> there. Obviously the European members of the net were not happy and let 
me
> know every time I was not transmitting. I accepted the reduced rate for a
> while but this was going no where and after 15 or 20 minutes when one of
> the 2x1 Italian contest stations with a 40 over signal came on I gave up
> and left.
>
> Was I right? What would others have done? How do you handle this 
situation?
>
> 73,  Bruce Makas, K1MY
>      Cape Elizabeth, Maine
>      207/767-8150
>      k1my at nlis.net
>
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