[UK-CONTEST] Are we allowed to operate above 7.200?

[Gerry Lynch]

Did I miss the bit where we and most of the rest of Europe seem to get 
special permission to operate above 7.200 for the weekend of major contests?

Maybe I'm just being a moaner but it seemed to me that every time a 
rare-ish multiplier appeared above 7.200 without listening down, a 
steady stream of Eus would appear and start working them (and yes, that 
includes G stations).

To be fair to the contest community, I didn't instantly recognise any of 
the calls so it may have been casual participants rather than 
contesters, but if you look at previous years' logs of Caribbean 
multi-ops, you can see this didn't suddenly start happening this weekend.

I appreciate that it's easy to press the wrong button on the split 
set-up when you've been without sleep for 30+ hours... I realise this 
mainly because I've done it and been chewed out over it on the CDXC 
reflector!  But there's a difference between doing that and wilfully 
calling out of band because you feel like it.  Yes, it was frustrating 
to hear ZM2M as a solid S8, absolutely in the clear on 7.235 or so 
begging for QSOs but not listening down in our band, but hardly so 
frustrating to make me want to intentionally transmit out of band.

73

Gerry GI0RTN