[CQ-Contest] Frequency owners

[Cqtestk4xs@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/23/05 11:56:07 AM Greenwich Standard Time, 
k8do at mailblocks.com writes:
Unless, of course, you consider a good frequency fight to be an art 
form in it's own right...  I have never been run off a frequency in a 
contest... I have moved off when there was propagation change and an 
existing conversation became audible... I have moved when asked, 
politely, by a scheduled net...  But, I have never been run off by 
someone who claims he owns the frequency...  And even Riley is bound by 
the rules...
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You're one of the few guys who can claim that.  Most of the big guns I know 
will fight for a while.  But even guys liike myself, who have mega-stacks, know 
when it is better to turn the knob and find a new run frequency.

Being in a contest is kinda like being in a bikers' bar.  That stool my be 
yours, but if you are only 5' 9" tall and some big 6' 6" SOB wants it, it 
sometimes is better to take a different one.  If you start to get that macho 
attitude and it clouds clear thinking about maximizing the score.  Macho doesn't win 
contests.

Bill K4XS