[UK-CONTEST] Monopolising bands?

[john ellerton]

Roger,  I think you have gone a little overboard.  No-one I know 
objects to contests .  Most of us join in them and can easily see the 
fun side of them.  what Steve is saying, as are many others, is simply 
that for contests to fill up every available kHz at the expense of 
those who at that particular time don't want to participate, but want 
to operate, seems unreasonable.  WARC bands are not always open - 
particularly in the mornings and later evenings, thus your alternative 
is not viable. Additionally the WARC bands do not have the same 
propagation characteristics as perhaps the lower frequency bands do.  
Is it really so much to ask for a small band of frequencies to be 
reserved for non-contesters.

John  G3NCN.

On Sunday, Mar 5, 2006, at 00:31 Europe/London, 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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