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

[Richard F DiDonna NN3W]

Bob, its not worth getting worked up over.  A lot of the anti contester 
types can be summed up in a line from a character named Kyle Reese:

"Listen, and understand ... It can't be bargained with.  It can't be 
reasoned with.  It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear.  And it 
absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead"

You simply cannot reason with stupid and ignorant.  Go on over to 
qrz.com and eham.net and read the contest rants that appear during and 
after most every major contest (interestingly, usually after a major SSB 
contest).

"there is a contest every weekend"
"why can't the contests be relegated only to the WARC bands"
"our ragchew group meets every day of the week on 14.266 at 1900z...we 
were jammed out when we started up because the contest was on"
"why can't we have 14.275 to 14.350 contest free"
"why doesn't the ARRL put a stop to all the madness in the CQWW"
"14.300 should be given a 10.00 kHz buffer"
"my radio doesn't have a WARC band option"
"I don't have antennas on the WARC band"
"why were there SSB contesters on 7.045"
"why do contesters work split and take up two frequencies at once"

The stupid is very, very strong with this contingent.

73 Rich NN3W

On 8/7/2013 10:30 AM, w5ov at w5ov.com wrote:
> 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
>
>