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

[Ed Parish K1EP]

At 3/9/04 07:03 PM, Shelby Summerville wrote:
>"Ragnar Otterstad" <otterstad at enter.vg> wrote: "It still surprises me to
>find experienced contesters not observing the bandplan and being a nuisance
>for others not participating in a phone contest."

It just doesn't happen on 40M.  I was mostly on 15M during the contest, however, I occasionally went over to the 160M station when it wasn't occupied and I was still conscious.  I had to laugh at an exchange I heard.  A non-US station was CQ'ing below 1843, I think it was around 1834.  Someone popped on frequency and asked the station to come up to 1850-something and work him.  The DX said, why not work here?  The US station started in on the band plan.  The DX wouldn't move. This exchange lasted a couple of minutes.  No contest QSO was completed, but I got a good chuckle before I went to sleep.