[UK-CONTEST] CQWW 2004

[Tom Wylie]

I dont find it contentious at all Colin.   I dont think that contest calls 
are any different from any other,  GM or not.   I operated GM5A at times 
calling CQ on 7023 and just above there, but I draw the line at 7003.....

As you say - during CQWW - band PLANS go out the window - they are band 
PLANS and just that.    I think it good that they exist for the greater good 
but I think that during the major Contesting events which only last about 
10 days each year they can be relaxed,  then I dont think anybody can 
complain.   At GM5A I had a 2 element yagi beam about 70 feet and was 
running an MP and a linear at 400 watts PEP.   In the UK we already have a 
power disadvantage and its only a matter of time that you start high in the 
band and get pushed slowly but surely to the edges.   Countless times I had 
to relinquish a frequency to stronger German and Balkan stations, so I make 
no apology for being lower in frequency than I would probably like, but it 
was either that or QRT.   I did listen ABOVE 100 but apart from some yakking 
Gs and the States I didnt hear too much.  I guess we will have to wait till 
the rest of the World catch up.

Maybe we should lobby Ofcomm or whoever they call themselves now, but a 
common European power limit of say 1kW - at least during the major contests 
when using a Contest Call, then maybe - maybe these petty squabbles wouldnt 
flare up.

I did get flack for calling CQ on 7023 from several stations including Gs, 
who refused to identify themselves and who dont do their cause much good by 
causing deliberate QRM contrary to The Wireless Telegraphy Act, rather than 
little me who was breaking NO law.

Now THATS contentious!!!!!   hehe


Tom - GM4FDM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <colin at g3psm.net>
To: "UK Contest Reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 12:46 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] CQWW 2004


>
> At the risk of raising a somewhat contentious issue (who me?), should
> the RSGB be seen to be actively encouraging the breaking of the agreed
> Region 1 Bandplan?.   While it generally agreed that the bandplans go
> out of the windows each time there is a CQWW Contest I find it somewhat
> embarrassing when I hear a GM station on 7003 kHz using a RSGB Contest
> callsign calling CQ Contest and listening this frequency AND 7022 !!
>
> Comments, flak etc.
>
> 73
>
> Colin, G3PSM
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