[SECC] 160M Contest

[ku8e at bellsouth.net]

Why can't you call CQ there to make intercontinenal qsos ?   I hear N7DD, K6SE and others out west call CQ there every 160 contest. Are you only allowed to call CQ there if you are a W1 , W6 or W7 ????   Just another examaple of a "bad" rule..  Thet should just keep that window open for DX like it always was in the past....

                        Jeff
 
> 
> From: John Laney <k4bai at worldnet.att.net>
> Date: 2004/12/03 Fri AM 09:58:07 EST
> CC: SECC <secc at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [SECC] 160M Contest
> 
> On CW, the only DX window is 1830 to 1835, supposedly reserved for 
> intercontinental QSOs.  I would not call CQ in that window.  I would not 
> answer any US station in that window unless it is in the middle of the 
> day and no DX could be worked by anyone who could hear you.  I do answer 
> other North and Central American and Caribbean DX stations if they are 
> working in the window and listening simplex.  You really don't have 
> control of that situation.  W8JI might disagree and the strictest 
> interpretation would be not to answer any NA station in the window 
> thereby forcing them to move for contacts in NA or to listen split.
> 
> CW stations will be QRV from 1800 to as high in the band as your antenna 
> will load probably.  I'd avoid frequencies used by SSB stations as a 
> courtesy to them.
> 
> 73,
> 
> 
> John, K4BAI.
> 
> P.S.  My recollection is that the contest does not enforce any DX window 
> or bandplan, so courtesy is what we are talking about, not disqualification.
> 
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