[UK-CONTEST] CQWW 160 SSB

[Stewart Rolfe]

Chris,

I guess this is precisely the point Dave is trying to make....

A couple of comments after reading GW4ALG's page:-

The issues arise because contesting is now more popular, so some want to curtail it. Bit perverse I'd say. Statements like 'a minority of 10% of amateurs are contesters' seem meaningless. 10% of what - total licences issued including club, short contest, dual held? Or 10% of active licensed individuals, far more meaningful?

RSGB congests like AFS, CC seem very good at sticking to 'band-plan', it's the international ones that aren't. At the end of the day though band-plans are unofficial but DQRM is illegal. So when in cw AFS in January a station suddenly appeared on my run frequency of several minutes claiming it was 'their' sked frequency and persisted in DQRMing for many minutes, who was in the wrong there? The station in question was so convinced in their own self righteousness that, fair play, they even identified themselves!

Finally, this particular amateur had his flagging interest in ham radio actually resurrected by contesting......

73,

Stewart, GW0ETF
--- On Sun, 27/2/11, Chris Tran GM3WOJ <zl1ct1 at gm7v.com> wrote:

> 
> I had a quick look at GW4ALG's QRZ.com webpage.
> 
> Somewhat puzzling attitudes expressed there, considering my
> last QSO with 
> GW4ALG was a *contest* QSO on 23rd Feb 2006 when he was
> winner of the QRP 
> section of that CC CW contest.