[CQ-Contest] Re: Owning a Frequency

[Jon Ogden]

>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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Jon Ogden

jono at enteract.com
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"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."

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