[CQ-Contest] WARC bands and contesting.

[John Langdon]

The 30, 17, and 12M bands are so narrow that a contest would obliterate all
other users.  But lots of ops chase DXCC on the WARC bands, and activity is
not all that low when conditions are good.

73 John N5CQ

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ron
Notarius W3WN
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 11:05 AM
To: bparry at rgv.rr.com; cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WARC bands and contesting.

Tell you what Bill...
 
If you really want to know "why not", head over to some of the radio forums
like QRZ.COM and eHam.NET and ask the question.  Just be ready to have your
head handed to you by the anti-contest nutz, let alone the other users.
 
I would really, really, really recommend against opening up this can of
worms.
 
73

On 08/05/13, Bill Parry wrote:

I have been thinking that we have made a mistake in not allowing contesting
on the WARC bands. These bands are real nice but there doesn't seem to be
much activity. If we were to have a WARC band contest, we would get the
occupancy rate up and it would help us become familiar with the band
openings etc....not to mention it would allow us to work a lot of DX. Maybe
just one a year? 

I know this topic is verboten but why not?

Bill W5VX

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