[CQ-Contest] intentional QRMing rare ones - SS SSB

[Mike Fatchett]

I heard that same guy.  I finally managed to work VY1MB around him.  I never
heard him doing the same with NH6P.  NH6P was much louder.  It seemed odd to
me too.

I had my own personal qrm issue.  I was on 75m and just finished a nice run
and moved something on the desk.  I started calling CQ a couple of seconds
later and a guy comes back and said he was using the frequency.  I thought
he has moved down in the short time I was not xmitting.  I told him I had
been using the frequency for a couple of hours.  I moved off and looked at
the log entries and found out that the vfo had been moved.  Turns out we
were only about 1.5 kc away from each other.  As soon as I figured it out I
went back and apologized.  The OP was real nice and laughed...and said they
were just having a good time and not to worry about it.  The other station
was W1AW.

Of course I was chased out the coveted DX window and the AM calling
frequency on 75.  I didn't hear the same guy that harassed a bunch of us
last year in the "dx window".  I heard one guy respond, "So where is the DX
Window going to be once the new allocations take effect."

Mike W0MU

  

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Subject: [CQ-Contest] intentional QRMing rare ones - SS SSB

while attempting to work VY1MB on 20m on Sunday in SS SSB, i had to work
around another station who was 400 hertz down on 14.155.  there was a rather
large pileup on VY1MB, and the other station was working a few here and
there.  i dropped down and asked the station if he could slide down just a
little bit (500 hertz at most, which seemed was in the clear) but he refused
in very clear terms and made no attempt to be civil.  it seems odd to stay
right next to a "rare" mult, but he persisted and had a lot of dupes that he
was working off VY1MB's frequency.  

i figured he was trying to hold his run frequency but was loosing the battle
to the VY1 pile up but wrote down his callsign because of the nasty comments
he had given me.  i checked to see if i had worked him which i had very
early in the contest.

a few hours later i came across NH6P and wouldn't you know it, there was a
station right on top of him calling CQ, again about 400 hertz down.  i tuned
down and let the operator know he was right on top of NH6P to which i got
back some lip service.  i didn't realize it was the same station until i got
the lip service.  i checked the paper and sure enough, it was the same
station that on top of VY1MB and again 400 hertz down.

i confronted the operator asking why he seemed to "just happen" (his words)
to be working right next to/on top of the "rare" mult with a good pileup.  i
got some lip service about propagation and the band going long.  i then let
him know i wrote down his call earlier when he was on top of VY1MB and that
i knew what he was up to and i was considering filing a complaint off with
the FCC.  

while i realize that engaging the operator created more QRM for those trying
to work NH6P, the result of that minute of confrontation was that he cleared
off after a few "uh" and "um" stammerings into the mic.  he was truly
speechless and i think he realized he had been called out on it.

i understand that propagation is such that all stations can not hear if a
station is calling on a frequency, but you should be able to hear the pileup
trying to work the station running on the frequency, right?  seems to me
this was a great deal more than just sloppy operating or not having good
ears, this was an intentional tactic used to siphon off QSO's from the pile
up on the "rare" one.  

if this was unintentional, i'd gladly apologize for confronting the station,
but judging from his reaction, i'm guessing he knew exactly what he was
doing.  i'm still considering sending in a formal complaint against the
offending station.  of all the complaints i here on the bands and at the
local radio club meetings regarding the "poor operating" that contesters
exhibit, this individual must be their poster child.   we need not give the
non-contester any ammo with which to bolster their opinion (rightly or
wrongly deserved) of contesting and contesters.


-Steve, WM3O

 
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