[CQ-Contest] Contesting tips and tricks - not

[Mike Fatchett, W0MU]

Can someone point me to the run frequency reservation page?  I would like
2.5 kc's from the band edge for each contest.

As far as I am concerned as soon as you stop using the frequency it is
available to others.  This is a hazard of SO2R.  Running SO2R does not give
you the right to hold anything thing because you are off making a qso
someplace else.  You can't be at two place at once or so say the rules.  

I had a number of well known contesters pop in just above and below my run
frequency in an attempt to run me off.  Why is this behavior tolerable and
the above not?  

Frequencies are not owned for any period of time.  I am not sure who the FCC
might would deem the intentional interferer especially when your log will
show that you were elsewhere making a contact.............

IMHO

Mike
W0MU 

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Scott R.
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 7:47 AM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Contesting tips and tricks - not

AH3C:
>It's Sunday morning and 20M is wide open.  The band is wall-to-wall 
>with big signals calling CQ and making occasional Q's.  Their rate has 
>dropped below 60/hr and the majority are Single Op.  Many are SO2R.
>As you pause to listen to a station you haven't worked, don't call 
>until you hear that sudden stop in the middle of the CQ.  Now, this is 
>your opportunity to make 2 Q's in the next minute.  Call CQ.  If you're 
>lucky someone will come back to you before the big gun returns.  He 
>will hear you in the middle of a qso and realize he hasn't worked you 
>before.  He will likely wait for you to complete your Q and then call 
>you for another S&P Q himself.  He now has just made 2 Q's, you have 
>made 2 Q's, and if he is a true gentleman, he will look for another 
>frequency to turn on his CQ machine again.

The view from the other side:

#1.  Hearing a stopped CQ is not an invitation to try to steal time on a run
frequency.  You have no idea what could be going on - by Sunday morning I am
so tired I can barely remember to press F1.  It would be easy to press F1
then ESC or kick the footswitch - voila, stopped CQ.  

#2.  The instant I hear you CQ on my frequency, I am stopping whatever is
going on via the second radio and reasserting that the frequency is mine,
and in use, and you need to move, by pressing F1 to CQ on my run freq.  If I
am working someone on the second radio, I will stop in mid-QSO to chase you
off my run freq and then repeat my report to the station I was working on
the other band.  

#3.  I am not going to S&P anyone who has tried to poach my run frequency,
while they are still on my run frequency, even if I have not QSOed them in
this contest.  This is a hard and fast rule, SO2R or not.
 If I do that, it indicates to the CQer that I acknowledge the station who
is stealing my run frequency has a legitimate right to it.  If they want to
call me, fine, otherwise - move it, bub.  

Scott W4PA



		
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