[CQ-Contest] Profanity during NAQP-RTTY

[Pat Rundall]

http://lists.contesting.com/_3830/200107/msg00317.html

I read this score/post this morning and was disappointed 
to read that others witnessed some ugly profanity during 
the NAQP contest this past weekend. 

However, one important clarification. I was operating NØAC 
(at NØNI) when the incident occurred. We had been running 
a frequency for quite some time when someone decided that 
they would try to intimidate us with some terrible language. 
To the best of my knowledge, our op on that rig (relatively 
inexperienced at RTTY) did not respond in any way (the old 
"ignore them, maybe they'll go away" approach). I do know 
that we had two very experienced contesters looking over 
his shoulder and that no one on our team used on-air profanity 
at our QTH. We ended up avoiding confrontation altogether by
QSYing (from a productive freq).

Certainly, no one was more disappointed than us as here we 
were trying to convince a newbie that RTTY contests were 
"kinder and gentler"... then this garbage appears. Quite 
frustrating.

Anyway, I just wanted to clarify that as it wasn't really a 
"fight" (implying that both parties were participating). I 
know that this is probably an old subject on this message 
board, but I wanted to point out that a) some experienced
ops on our end were disappointed in what was, in fact, some
ugly language and b) right or wrong, we chose to QSY rather
than reciprocate - after all, we were much more interested
in Qs than fighting.

NØHR



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