[VHFcontesting] This weekend VHF contest

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Be polite to the extreme.  A couple big guns got on 146.520 sunday afternoon pounding away calling cq every few seconds in jan and the contacts dried up.   Call cq a couple times and if there is no response try another band.  If someone else calls cq for a rag chew let them be and qsy for 5 or 10 minutes.  Lots of fm folks know nothing about or even dislike contesting.  Many will want to talk for a bit to see what its all about. Engage them, make it fun and folks will come out of the woodwork for the novelty of it. A big plus is that folks gwt really excited about doing fm simplex beyond 100 or 200 miles and they will call friends so they can do it too.

Have a light touch and be friendly.

73
John
KM4KMU

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On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 Bob K0NR - email list <list at k0nr.com> wrote:
This point about being polite on 146.52 MHz is worth repeating. If 
contest stations dominate that frequency for the entire contest, we'll 
probably see a petition drive to reverse the rule change that allows it. 
What "polite" means likely varies consistent with local usage.

73, Bob K0NR

On 05-Jun-17 10:38 PM, John Young via VHFcontesting wrote:
> The big challenge is always simplex turn out. Contact as many local clubs as you can, tell them what freq's you will be using (national calling freqs are legal now, just be polite and QSY as needed).

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