[UK-CONTEST] The first 144MHz UKAC of 2010

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

I'm going to play devil's advocate here...
I hope this wasn't me (I started running on 205 sometime into the  
contest), but people who have replied here appear to assume that  
whoever it was, could hear that you were using the frequency. Now we  
all know that propagation is not a 1:1 thing and if someone else  
didn't hear you, they may have thought the frequency was free.
I'd also like to know what peole consider to be the minimum spacing on  
2m for SSB?
-- 
73 de M0XDF

On 6 Jan 2010, at 21:19, Ken Eastty wrote:

>
>> .
>>
>> One thing I found very frustrating was that I'd been sitting on a
>> frequency just keeping it occupied for around fifteen minutes prior
>> to the start of the contest (I always make a point of spinning the
>> beam the full 360 degrees while doing this to make sure that there's
>> nobody doing the same thing that we're not hearing because they're in
>> a null) with not a peep heard but 30 seconds before the official
>> start time (according to my MSF set watch) someone started calling CQ
>> contest just 2.5 KHz above us forcing me to tune down a couple of k
>> to clear them.  I wish people would take the time to actually listen
>> on the frequency they want to use rather than what appeared to
>> happen, ie just turn the radio on and start shouting without having a
>> good listen around first.
>>
>>
>> 73 Keith, G6NHU
>
>
> Tut tut,
>
> Don't you know that one or two operators think that they 'own'
> particular frequencies and use them in contests regardless
> of whether anyone was there first (It helps them of course as DX knows
> where to look for them) or is this just me being cynical?
>
> 73....
>
> Ken
>
> G3LVP
>
>
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