[UK-CONTEST] Gonna write me a letter

[Roger Western]

Quite right, Stewart. If all these selfish people don't stop enjoying 
themselves soon I will just have to send my licence back to Ofcom in 
protest. Our hard-won radio spectrum should be kept completely clear of 
signals just in case I feel like switching on every few weeks.

And another thing: I used to play around with contests with my 50' wire down 
to the fence, but these days pushy blighters get together in 'Contest Clubs' 
and really work hard and you know what . . . they WIN. It's not fair that 
the little guy with his indoor magnetic loop can't win so I think we should 
ban all those with operating skills and big antennas - then youngsters could 
win on their first or second attempt. That will be fair: everyone playing at 
the lowest common denominator. Ofcom should ban CW above 12 wpm and limit 
power to 10 watts: that'd really sort the men from the boys. Then contests 
will die for lack of support, then we can all take up bird-watching . . .  a 
great result for those who would squash enthusiasm.

73 de Roger/G3SXW.




-----Original Message----- 
From: Stewart Rolfe
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 9:48 AM
To: UK-Contest
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Gonna write me a letter

Had some downtime last night, often do on a Sunday evening. So I went to the 
higher bit of 30m for a bit of ragchewing, often do on a Sunday evening.

But when I tuned across the band, rather than my usual quiet frequency I 
found to my horror a cacophony of massive signals covering a huge swath of 
30m, the majority clearly emanating from huge over-powered linears from 
eastern Europe; even came across a new (special event?) callsign from 
Kazakhstan, UPUP but I couldn't find it in qrz.com.

So I checked my favourite bit of 20m - same thing! In disgust I had to 
switch off and go and watch 'Country File'. It simply isn't fair all these 
chaps filling the bands like this. If it carries on like this I shall sell 
my radio and use Skype to talk to my chums instead. I shall write to Radcom 
and demand the RSGB do something about it...

Stewart, GW0ETF
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