[CQ-Contest] Re: Dark Side......

[Cqtestk4xs at aol.com]

N2MG:   Regardless of 
whether these collisions in our shared spectrum are deliberate,  
mistakes, or caused by stupidity does not seem to matter -  they get 
Contesting in trouble and we should be aware of this.
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I wonder if some of these people who complain are the ones who, during a big 
DXpedition, start transmitting in the DX station's listening window of 20 kHz 
without checking if the frequency is in use.  Do the guys who are in a QSO on 
the frequency get all pissed too and condemn all DXers?  

Don't get me wrong, what happened to the  DX-ing station at the end of the 
contest  shouldn't have happened.  It was wrong.  But, as N2MG pointed out, 
accidents do happen.  However, many people form stereotypes from one or two 
isolated incidents.  How many contesters have a stereoypical 'pig-farmer' 
operator concept about the guys on 75m ssb from one or two incidents of 
harrassment from the good old boys on 75 ssb?

Bill K4XS