[UK-CONTEST] Channel rights?

[dave at g4buo.com]

This has come up a few times on the cq-contest reflector and while there's
no hard and fast rule, it certainly seems to be generally agreed that once
you've made a couple of QSOs, it's very much too late for the person who
vacated the frequency to expect to have it back.

Coming back later on and CQing over your callers is deliberate QRM and 
completely unacceptable.

Dave G4BUO

> OK, I guess this is all in a day's business for many of you, but I
> usually only run in international events 2 or 3 times a year.  There's
> at least one subscriber to this forum who may disagree with my
> viewpoint, but I hadn't realised that the following practice (seen
> during CQ 160 at the weekend) has become effectively the norm.
>
> Having found a usable channel, sent QRL? with no reply, fired off a few
> CQs and worked a couple of punters, the alleged "proprietor" comes on
> the scene, claiming he has been using the channel for "long" and refuses
> to recognise that by departing for whatever reason, he has lost use of
> it.  As far as I was concerned, this was a matter of principal and,
> especially as I was still able to make a few QSOs, there was no way I
> was going to budge.  Thanks are due to a couple of G stations who may or
> may not have fully understood exactly what was going on (they know who
> they are!), but took the trouble to call during the episode.
> Eventually, the offending station would go off somewhere for a few
> minutes, returning from time to time to CQ specifically over one of my
> callers.  Do people try to hold two run channels at once perhaps?  And
> are they all from E Europe??
>
> My question: who was being unreasonable?
>
> 73, Peter G3LET
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