[CQ-Contest] ARRL Phone - 40 m lack of bandplan compliance

[Ragnar Otterstad]

I am not really a phone contester ( XYL calls it a parrot contest) but do
work some of the more wellknow calls just for  fun. 80 had a great opening
sunday morning with many big signals-

But where was K3ZO this year ?


It still surprises me to find experienced contesters not observing the
bandplan and being a nuisance for others not participating in a phone
contest.

I worked only those who listened above 7040, where phone starts in Region 1.

The following stations were listening in the CW band, even as low as 7017
( W3LPL):


N9RV   7020
KC1XX  7033.5
N5DX   7024
W2RE   7018
K3LR   7033
K4XS   7021
K4JA    7023.5
K3CR   7023

KB1H   21130

IMHO : These stns should have a penalty deducted from the final score.

It was nice to hear a K9-er on 15 who did it the old way by listening
outside the US phoneband and avoided some of the QRM problems.

73

" RAG "  Ragnar Otterstad   LA5HE JW5HE OZ8RO

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