[CQ-Contest] Contesting tips and tricks - not

[John Geiger]

So the second I quit calling CQ someone else can open
up with a CQ on that frequency because I am not
transmitting?  How am I supposed to hear any replies?

73s John NE0P

--- "Mike Fatchett, W0MU" <w0mu at w0mu.com> wrote:

> 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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