[CQ-Contest] Sharing Radio Spectrum and Roads

[Milt Jensen, N5IA]

Excellent analogy!!!!!  Thanks, Mike.  73 de Milt, N5IA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Gilmer" <n2mg at eham.net>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 9:08 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Sharing Radio Spectrum and Roads


>
> I also see the similarity between theses two resources, bands and roads,
> however, I see it somewhat differently: no race cars necessary.
>
> I liken the bands to the highways, normally filled, to various degrees,
with
> "casual" drivers, going to the mall or visiting their friends, etc.  But a
> couple of times a day, the roads fill up - rush hour - when room and
> civility are at a premium.  Now, a sensible person learns when rush hour
> occurs, and unless necessary, avoids the roads at those times.  Casual
> drivers may complain about the traffic, but they never claim that the rush
> hour drivers should not use certain roads or be banned from certain lanes
on
> others.
>
> A sensible ham, IMO, learns when contests are going to occur (at least the
> BIG ones) and avoids the appropriate bands.  Folks who insist on doing
> otherwise are as unreasonable as the contesters so often admonished in
these
> "opinions".
>
> Trying to complete the analogy, and be reasonable, I realize that
emergency
> traffic has to have access to these two resources.  Even during rush hour,
a
> fire truck can get through, even if a bit more slowly.  If and when
> contesting and emergency traffic collide, we can look really, really bad,
> but I don't think that means all the HF bands need dedicated 50kHz-100kHz
> pieces banned from contest use.
>
> Mike N2MG
>
>
> K1PX wrote:
> > I'm essentially convinced that there is no real solution to this
> > issue of contesting and non-contesters.
> >
> > Years ago, I had a racing car and I believe that this situation
> > is somewhat akin to holding racing events on public roads along
> > with regular traffic. Fortunately, face cars have their own
> > tracks or, in some cases, run on public roads with all other
> > traffic closed down.
>
>
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