[UK-CONTEST] AFS - operating out of band

[Mike Farmer]

This situation would be resolved if the rules required compliance with the
Band Plan (Both IARU R1 and RSGB). How about the station that spent the
first 2 hours operating below 3603 his LSB is out of band.  I quit after 2
hours having decided that the only way to do well (get abobe half way was to
use a wider band width (and probably more (and illegal power)).  I have
suggested to HFCC that there should be a maximum of 2 hours running to be
taken in 1 block.  That would have the effect of permitting the not so big
signals to find a run freq and have a chance of scoring a bit better!!!

Mike
G3VAO



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stewart Rolfe" <gw0etf at btinternet.com>
To: "UK-Contest" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 9:15 AM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] AFS - operating out of band


I'd abandoned yesterday's contest to family duties but in the end found I
was able to steal into the shack for a few short periods and give away some
casual points.

I'd 'read' the rules and noticed they differed with CC in that there was no
gap in the frequency allocation but failed to spot the difference in the
upper limit (3.750 instead of 3.775 MHz). So on one visit I spent a few
minutes running on 3.752 before someone pointed out my mistake...G3VIP I
think it was - thanks. Apologies to the half dozen stations I worked and who
may/will lose the points; I suppose they're not totally blameless for
replying to a caller who is clearly out of band?

Casual participation is no excuse for not reading the rules carefully.....

73,

Stewart, GW0ETF