[CQ-Contest] WARC Bands and Contesting: Aargh! FAQ Update

[David Gilbert]

Say what?  Fight back??  The last thing contesters need is to get pig 
headed and pick a fight with other hams over agreements that have been 
in place for decades.  We don't occupy less than 20% of weekend activity 
because anybody else is preventing us from using more of it, and to 
claim that we need to "fight back" to use more of it is profoundly absurd.

You just made me embarrassed to be a contester.

Dave   AB7E


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> On 08/07/13, w5ov at w5ov.com wrote:
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> Since the WARC bands are contest-free bands, where's the balance?
>
> Where are the contesting-only bands?
>
> Of course, there are none. And, it would be absurd to presume that there
> should be.
>
> However, non-contesters are allowed to hold a similar absurd opinion and
> are in fact, encouraged by some to seek to have contest band segments
> established and the like in order to limit contest use of the bands.
>
> When will there be fairness? When will non-contesters realize that they
> have exclusive non-contest allocations and that they should stop
> complaining?
>
> Seriously, while there are contests pretty much every weekend, less than
> 10 weekends a year (less than 20% of the weekends) have major contests on
> them that dominate the bands and most of those are one mode at a time.
>
> Is less than 20% of the weekends really too much to ask for contesters ?
>
> Really?
>
> So, non-contesters get greater than 80% of the year without a major
> contest going on and they also get 3 (albeit small) bands where contest
> activity is precluded.
>
> Exactly how much would be enough for non-contesters? Hmmm?
>
> We need to fight back.
>
> 73,
>
> Bob W5OV
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