[CQ-Contest] WARC bands and contesting.

[Martin , LU5DX]

Hmm. I guess we cannot suggest to non-contesters what bands to use. Neither
we can expect them to use certain bands (in this case the WARC bands).
They "owe" the ham radio spectrum in the same proportion as we contesters
do.
There are 333 contests and lots of State QSO parties in a calendar year.
The vast majority of them during weekends when most people is not working
and have a chance to get on the air. I guess that's why non-contesters hate
contesters.
Let's remember that we contesters are a very small fraction of the total
ham radio population, nevertheless, we cause chaos in a big way when we do
"our thing" weekend after weekend :-)

73 de LU5DX


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com> wrote:

> What I don't get is that we chose these bands to be without contests so
> people would have some contest-free zones to go to when the other bands
> became filled with contesters. Then there are all these people who refuse
> to use them and yet complain about the contesting all the same.
>
> Whatever happened to flexibility?
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Jeffrey Embry <jeffrey.embry at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Nah....leave the can sealed.  Not worth the energy expended, nor the
> agony.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Jeff
> > K3OQ
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Michael Clarson <wv2zow at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > IF one were to "open the can" (not suggesting we do, but since we are
> > > discussing this topic, the can may already be leaking) the first
> > suggested
> > > event should be Field Day, since it isn't a contest. --Mike, WV2ZOW
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > >> 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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