[CQ-Contest] ARRL 160 and DX Window

[ve4xt@mb.sympatico.ca]

What a lid!

(I mean the unnamed IL station, not the two Steves.)

73, kelly
ve4xt

 
> From: Steve London <n2ic at arrl.net>
> Date: 2005/12/06 Tue AM 10:25:58 CST
> To: "Steve.Root at culligan.com" <steve.root at culligan4water.com>
> CC: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL 160 and DX Window
> 
> 
> 
> Steve.Root at culligan.com wrote:
> 
> > More disturbing to me is the attitude of some of the big guns who feel
> > they've staked out a frequency and you'd better not use it, even if they're
> > gone for extended periods of time.  A certain station in IL did this to 
me.
> > I was on 1823 for almost 10 minutes and had a decent run going  
Then he came
> > back from his multiplier hunt and just went back to CQing.  Needless 
to say
> > I left but it's still poor operating in my book.
> 
> Funny, I had the same experience on 1823, probably with the same 
> top-scoring IL station. Since I wasn't putting in a serious effort, and 
> he was, I took the attitude "this will hurt you more than it will hurt 
> me". After 10 minutes, he moved.
> 
> 73,
> Steve, N2IC
> 
> > 
> > 73 Steve K0SR
> > 
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