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@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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