Maybe we should just have a rule that the calling frequency is not to be
used in the contest. Maybe that will spread everyone out.
What I'm trying to say is that a station running 500 watts with his beam
pointed at right angles to me is possibly not going to hear my 5 to 25
watts, but he will if he points his beam at me. So as this operator
swings his beam looking into different areas, he will probably come
across me calling him. If he also has to hop around in frequency, my
chances of working him are greatly reduced.
On HF you don't have this problem. Very few people (if any) have a 12
element beam for 40 or 20 meters. The beam pattern is much broader.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Tree wrote:
>
> I guess I see the use of the QSY rule in VHFing as a way to kick the big gun
> off the calling frequency for a short period of time and make them QSY to
> another frequency. I don't really understand how this is going to be a
> big problem for anyone but the big gun.
>
> By opening up the utility of the calling frequency for some smaller guns to
> make an occasional QSO - I think we improve the experience for them - and
> maybe there will be more fun in it for the smaller guns - and there will be
> more of them for the big guns to work.
>
> And - at least in this area - getting people to move around some will help
> spread things out instead of everyone trying to make their QSOs on the
> calling frequency.
>
> Tree
>
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