[UK-CONTEST] Monopolising bands?

[Tom Wylie]

Well said Roger -  more that 50% of all contests are only 24 hours in 
any case and dont last for a whole weekend.
Many of our hams nowadays are retired and can also play when all of us 
YOUNG contesters are at work..................

73  TY4TW

 

G3SXW wrote:
> Dear UK-Contest,
> GW4ALG said:
>   
>> "a minority of the amateur community monopolise entire
>> band segments, across multiple  bands for several weekends
>> in a row"
>>     
>
> Poppy-cock. This happens rarely: CQWW, WPX, ARRL. The
> other 40+ weekends of the year there's plenty of room between
> the contesters. Not to mention WARC bands. And most big
> contests are single-mode.
> A few folks go into orbit when hearing a contest, just on principle.
> This extremism is illogical: how can it be a 'minority' when they fill
> the bands? Over 30,000 people participate in CQWW, each mode.
> Indoctrination works by constantly repeating the same statements.
> We eventually come to believe a mis-truth simply because we've
> heard it so often. This is the tactic of the anti-contest brigade, in the
> absence of reasoned argument.
> If contests upset you just QSY to WARC or to a different mode or
> protect your blood-pressure by tending the garden. At very least
> stop being a kill-joy.
> 73 de Roger/G3SXW.
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