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

[john at kk9a.com]

Perhaps you are a casual contester and have never experienced deliberate
jamming from a net that is about to start on a frequency that you have
occupied for hours. Sometimes they just demand that you QSY. Some
non-contesters feel that because they meet regularly on a certain spot
that they are entitled to this frequency.  They are not! Many have a
dislike for contesters. I personally have no dislike for non-contesters
and I just feel that they should either adjust their operating frequency
or use a non contest band. There is no reason to pick a fight just to make
them aware of the regulations.


To:	cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject:Re: [CQ-Contest] WARC Bands and Contesting: Aargh! FAQ Update
From:	 David Gilbert
Date:	 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 15:36:28 -0700



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




On 08/07/13, 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