[CQ-Contest] NAQP Power Level

[W0MU]

Seems like the entitlement age has now reached contesting.  You can't 
work someone because you think he is running HP and that is his problem 
and not yours?  Maybe he has S9 powerline noise or was not listening in 
your direction.

Nobody forced you to "waste" a lot of time trying to work this guy. How 
many mults and contacts did you miss by not turning the dial. Isn't one 
of the skills of contesting know when you can and can't get through and 
when to move on?

Me me me me me me ...I need the mult, I was calling, I wasted.

This is contesting.  A Significant portion of the contestants really 
aren't.  They are passerby's simply operating by the terms of their 
licenses.  The airwaves belong to the public not the contest.

I thought I had heard it all.

W0MU

> Here's a simple example of why we care from last night on 80M. In S&P
> mode, I was calling a station who had a considerably better signal than
> many from the east coast I had worked, but I wasted a lot of time trying
> to get his multiplier.
>
> Another example -- I'm running S&P and calling another station I need as
> a mult and a high power station wins the jump ball. He's 12 dB louder by
> virtue of his power amp, not his antennas or distance.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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