[CQ-Contest] PSE QSY to ...

[K3BU at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/28/2000 6:19:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
n4zr at contesting.com writes:

> Seems to me there is a perfectly clear ethical line to be drawn here.
>  Nobody (not M/M, not M/S, not SO2R) should ask a DX station who is CQing to
>  QSY to another band.  But if the multi-whatever is running, and is called
>  by something juicy, I see no harm in passing to another band.  

That was the point of my posting. MM nails the CQing station with pileup and 
asks it to QSY. I have no (big) problem with moves if they are running and DX 
calls them, but it is very frustrating to have the multiplier snatched away 
to never come back land, especially if one is operating single band and has 
no provision to follow the moves or to bring it back. This is why I think 
solicitation of contacts (existing means, plus packet plus QSYs) should be 
deemed unsportsmanlike and discouraged by the rules.
Let's remember that we are trying to test the operator skills and station 
design capabilities and not spoon feeding or shooting animals in the ZOO. Can 
we get back to: find, work, log, feel good? 

Yuri, K3BU
single bandit, no packet, no QSYing, still married, with children  


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