[UK-CONTEST] Reserving a Channel

[g3ory at lineone.net]

Hi Ray,

I think it is easy to overlook one of the advantages of the status 
quo. With no rule preventing a competitor from 'warming up' a frequecy, 
it does allow the band to be populated in a very orderly manner prior 
to the start of the contest. At the start of the contest the 'runners' 
are all lined up ready to be worked and the S&P guys can just tune from 
one to the next picking them off as fast as they can.  The band is 
likely to be occupied in an efficient way with stations on adjacent 
channels and very little overlap (with resultant QRM).



Imagine a rule where operating prior to the start is banned (or as also 
proposed recently, there is a mandatory QSY at the start). At the 
start, frequency 'fights' would break out all over the band and just 
get in the way of the weaker stations making lots of QSOs.



I am not convinced that the grass the other side is the least bit 
greener on this one.



73 Bob

G3ORY



>----Original Message----

>From: g3hrh at btinternet.com

>Date: 23/01/2011 19:18 

>To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>

>Subj: [UK-CONTEST] Reserving a Channel

>

>Slightly off the "time" topic but one of the things that I think would 
level 

>the playing field would be not to allow stations to come on sooner 
than, 

>say, 5 minutes before start time.  With SDR monitoring now in place 
it 

>should be possible to pick out at least the worst offenders  Certainly 
the 

>SP series is much nicer to work because it solves that problem.  Tin 
hat on 

>and waiting...........

>

>Ray G3HRH 

>

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