As also somewhat pointed out by a few - being silent or transmitting has
nothing to do with being the owner of the frequency! I can also use the
frequency for receiveing only (say split operation), it is still my
frequency and I use it.
It is all about being in control and actually monitoring the frequency. When
doing SO2R you always have to have one ear on CQ frequency and be able to
send answer to QRL? or ?. If you do not answer QRL? then you lose your
frequency.
But anybody firing up a CQ on a frequency that seems to have been idle even
for a minute or more does not get a right to take it unless he has produced
an unanswered QRL or at least ?. ? is even better because it does less
damage when you are trying to copy a weak one. Easy to reply with R.
Tonno
Es5tv
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Art
Boyars
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:25 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] The mess I stirred up!
Rather than filling my Inbox with CQ-Contest e-mail, I read the archives
on-line. Hence, my responses always lag. VE4XT had Cc'ed me on his reply
to "Enough of this nonsense!!", and I heard at last night's meeting of my
local Radio Club something about N6TR's posted a reply. I was waiting for
Tree's reply to appear in the archives before I responded. (I did reply
directly to VE4XT, explaining that I was waiting. While waiting, I
researched some previous discussion of this, and related, issues to use in
my response. That material goes back to December 2004!)
No responses to my original post had appeared by the time I QRT about 11PM
last night. I happened to wake up an hour early this morning (4AM, instead
of my regular Tues & Fri 5AM; I have a 6AM class those two days). I checked
to see if Tree's reply had appeared. Holey Moley! It took me over
30 minutes to read the posted replies. MOST of what I would have said has
already been mentioned. Now I'll have to digest all that and recompose my
response -- if any.
If I do re-post, I promise that it will be civil, and that I will try to
keep it light-hearted.
For now:
"10 seconds" might be a little too agressive. Likely so in SS CW; likely
not in NAQP.
I should not have assumed that the other op's non-response was from being on
the other radio. Maybe his computer froze up, or maybe he had to sharpen
his pencil. (Nonetheless, if you are, for whatever reason, silent for long
enough, then you lose the freq.) (Having worked Anna and Carol in NAQP, and
being a modern guy, I realize that I should not say he/his. We really
non-gendered pronouns in English.)
Now, it 5:23 AM and I have to hustle to get ready for my class.
73 es cul, Art K3KU
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