[CQ-Contest] HOGGING COEFFICIENT

Ria Jairam rjairam at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 15:54:03 EDT 2017


More importantly below 7128 there is less congestion because US stations
cannot transmit there so there's less to work down there for DX and no real
way for US stations to use those frequencies other than split operation.
Above 7200 most of Europe cannot transmit there either.

I don't get why some are so upset about this rule change. As pointed out,
CQ has had this rule for a while now and everyone just dealt with it, and
ARRL has said that it was never their intention to permit dual CQs in-band.

Time to move on.

73
Ria, N2RJ



On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Steve London <n2icarrl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>
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