At 07:15 2/28/00, owner-cq-contest@contesting.com wrote:
If stations A is calling CQ CONTEST, does he really have a "right" to
that frequency? Doesn't station B have just as much right to CQ
CONTEST on that frequency? Who is to say that station A is interfering
with station B or vice versa? A CQ is a CQ...it is not a qso. A
"history" of successful CQ's (resulting in a contest qso) doesn't give
that station any rights to "own" that frequency.
>Again, I say that if Station 2 can out-CQ station 1 as evidenced by
>successful QSO's, then station 2 "won" the frequency and did NOT steal
>it from station 1. This IS a contest. By CQ'ing, the frequency is up
>for grabs.
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You make the whole frequency and QSO competition thing sound like a
contest.
BRAVO !!
Bob Perring
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