[CQ-Contest] Re: various

[doug smith]

> From: "Scott Robbins" <w4pa at yahoo.com
> > I'm sure
> > the opinions are all over the map on this one, but
> > if you say you're going to QSY, does that IMMEDIATELY
> > give the right to someone to try to take over your
> > run frequency?  I am not stating an opinion either
> > way as I understand the motivations involved from
> > both sides of this event.  Any thoughts?

Tough situation.  I would suggest he should be OK to use the frequency
as he believed in good faith you had abandoned it.  If you will in fact
continue to use the frequency, you should immediately tell the other op
it's QRL & at that point, he should leave.  But then you have a (moral,
not necessarily legal) obligation to actually *use* the frequency - to
simply send "QRL" every time someone stumbles on the seemingly open
frequency is unsportsmanlike.  

Now if someone asks whether the frequency is QRL and you fail to answer,
the frequency is his.  Even if you didn't answer because you were
sending a fill to that KP2 station on the other radio.  

> From: "WBoeck" <ak0a at sound.net>
> All these messages about frequency control during contest. Here is a
> solution. Invoke the 10 minute Rule on all contest. OPS did I shock
> everyone? Sorry. hi hi.

Maybe not in all contests, but it would be interesting to try it for one
major contest sometime.  I'm presuming he means that an operator would
be limited to using a frequency for 10 minutes, and then must QSY... 
The Sprint QSY rule makes for an interesting competitive challenge; a
10-minute rule could have the same effect.  
 
> From: "James B. Neiger" <Jim_Neiger at XonTech.com>
>  And it's like we cannot leave well enough alone.  The WRTC (1) works well
> as it is, (2) IS a meaningful event (i.e., MORE than a party), and (3) the
> Organizers and Competitors deserve alot of credit for their achievements.

Agreed.  Please don't change the WRTC.  If we *MUST* have a 48-hour SO
event, maybe it can be held in the alternate periods *between* the
WRTCs?
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Doug Smith W9WI
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