[CQ-Contest] HOGGING COEFFICIENT

[Steve London]

In your example, you are never transmitting on 7050. In fact (and often 
reality), several CQers could all be announcing their listening 
frequency as 7050. In addition, there is nothing to stop a DX station 
from CQing on 7050.

73,
Steve, N2IC

>
> On 4/8/2017 5:48 AM, Matt NQ6N wrote:
>> If the concern is bandwidth used, shouldn't split operation be banned
>> as well? How does same band dueling CQ use more bandwidth than
>> "listening on this frequency and 7050"?
>>
>> In both cases it is the activity triggered by the running station on
>> both frequencies that prevents those frequencies from being used by
>> someone else.
>>
>> Not arguing for banning either, just pointing out that if bandwidth is
>> the concern they are essentially identical examples of "hogging" a
>> scarce resource.
>>
>> 73,
>> Matt NQ6N