Topband: Coupla things ...

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> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:04:13 -0500
> From: "Gary Smith" <Gary at ka1j.com>
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Topband: Coupla things
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> - It is a contest so the stronger and more savvy will wrangle
> contacts from those less able. I do find it disquieting to have
> someone obviously trying to copy my call and another contester come
> on top of my attempts and with their stronger signal, send their call
> over mine so the other person hearing them clearly replies to them
> instead. I'm running legal limit and the guy overpowering me is 20
> over so I know he heard me, he just pushed me aside like a shopper at
> Macy's Bargain Basement. Yes it's a contest but I don't find that
> kind of bullying to carry much honor.
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Gary, et al.:

That happened to me more than a few times, too.  I was surprised and
disappointed by how many seemed to take a DX station's "WA9?" as an
invitation to reply from an entirely different call area or with a vastly
dissimilar prefix.  And, except in the few cases where the DX op was kind
enough to persist,  I was usually shouldered aside in the resulting
"shouting match."

Contest or no, I sincerely hope this doesn't represent the new norm for the
"Gentleman's Band."

73,

Mark -- WA9ETW