[CQ-Contest] Speaking of Courtesy Violations

[Rick Bullon]

I saw a similar situation during the contest.
The run station ( on 40 meters) asked a mult to try to contact the mult 
station on 20 meters. The run station just picked a close frequency to what 
the mult station was on not knowing that a net was running on the 20 sked 
frequency. When the mult station found out the frequency was busy with a net 
he asked to be able to move the mult to another frequency. The reply from 
the net control was " Take your contest some where else". The mult was never 
worked!
I know that several of the regular nets on 10 meters cancel the nets that 
week because they know that there will be a lot of contest QRM. I am not 
saying that all nets should be cancelled during a contest but they ought to 
realize that during a contest weekend it will be hard if not impossible to 
hold a net on a congested band. After all we don't have a contest every week 
and I have heard very few contesters intentionally interfering with a net or 
non contest QSO.
73
Rick
KC5AJX

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>Jim,
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>Same thing at NK7U.  While I was doing a stint on 40m,
>Some station came down to the receive frequency and
>said I was interfering with a net.  I explained (on the proper
>transmit frequency) that I had been there a long time
>before their net ever started.  A little later I checked my
>transmit freq and sure enough I was getting a lot of "bad
>mouth."  Shortly I QSYed as I don't feel it is good image
>to stay and cause hard feelings to become worse.  Bottom
>line, courtesy seems to only go one way, as in a lot
>of things in this life.
>
>Rod - W7ZRC
>
>At 09:58 PM 10/30/2000 -0500, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>
>>At 09:11 AM 10/30/2000 -0800, KK7SR at arrl.net wrote:
>>
>>>Unfortunately, my memories of the CQ WW will be tainted by the number of
>>>boorish hams that piled onto a couple of nets that I enjoy just to work a
>>>needed multiplier.  We are not talking newbies here; there were a number
>>>of well known contester callsigns heard transmitting with reckless
>>>abandon and total lack of basic operating courtesy and responsibility on
>>>a frequency that had been in use for some time.
>>
>>I was the 40m op at KC1XX.
>>
>>As you may know, 40 and 75 are mostly done using split-frequency
>>operation, transmitting above 3750/7150 and listening down.  We almost
>>NEVER listen to our own transmit frequency.  As some stations in the USA
>>probably realize, if they tried to call us transceive, we almost never
>>heard them, unless by some stroke of luck we just happened to check the
>>transmit frequency for some unknown reason.
>>
>>When I was running, I asked a couple of times if the frequency was in
>>use.  I avoided places where there were QSOs taking place.
>>
>>However, if I was tuning the band, and some station announced he was
>>listening on 7205, then I just set the Transmit VFO and went.  I didn't
>>bother listening first.  If the DX station thought the frequency was clear
>>enough to listen, then I assumed that it was.   It's just TOO DARNED HARD
>>to check your transmit frequency first in these situations.  It's all part
>>of the battle, and unfortunately, the low-band guys need to take this into
>>account a couple of times a year.
>>
>>We did get one E-mail during the contest complaining about QRM to an
>>on-going QSO.  It was probably one of these types of situations, I would
>>not have deliberately called CQ on a busy channel.
>>
>>73 - Jim AD1C
>>
>>
>>--
>>Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
>>http://www.ad1c.com
>>
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>Rod Greene W7ZRC  ><>
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