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

[Colin Wilson]

Hi Happy new year to all.
Same thing happened to me I was running on a frequency until someone told me 
there was a GM on the same frequency calling cq!  I turned the beam north 
and heard nothing but QSY'd anyway but I must admit its not always easy to 
determine if a frequency is clear or not on 2m its not like HF!
Lots of stations down south must rarely turn their beams north to see if 
there is life north of Watford but on the odd occasion they do we find they 
are 50 or so QSO's ahead!
70cm's next week I think so please look to the frozen North if your down 
South!>
73

Colin G3VCQ/J38CW
www.sheffield-live.co.uk


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ferrington, M0XDF" <M0XDF at Alphadene.co.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] The first 144MHz UKAC of 2010


> 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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