[CQ-Contest] UP Official Notification

[Sebastian, W4AS]

I don't recall the prefix, but there was a W/K station ending in 5UP.  Talk about confusion if he would have been running.

73 de Sebastian, W4AS



On Nov 28, 2011, at 1:31 PM, W6SX Hank Garretson wrote:

> 
> This email constitutes Official Notification that if I hear you 
> sending UP in a contest, I will tune right by you.
> 
> I consider UP in a contest to be bad form. I think it is unfair and 
> inconsiderate for someone to take up extra kilohertz of precious 
> contest spectrum. There are lots of pileup mitigation techniques that 
> everyone else uses. The good guys were running at much higher rates 
> than the guys I heard sending UP.
> 
> One mitigation technique that works every time is to QSY. A Northwest 
> Territory station used QSY to good effect in CW Sweepstakes.
> 
> The first rule of contesting is to have fun (but not at the expense 
> of other competitors).
> 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Hank, W6SX