Contesters:
I wrote this up a few days ago, re-read it, then deleted it. I thought this
thread would die and didn't need me to keep it going. But it's still going,
so....
Doesn't anyone else see a difference between "trying to steal" or "trying to
win" a frequency from another contest entrant and someone engaged in a real qso?
I would have a very difficult time saying who was interfering with whom if I
tuned onto a freq and heard two entrants CQ'ing on top of each other. 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.
I run QRP often. I NEVER feel that someone stole "my" fequency...they WON it.
Why is this so hard to understand?
de Doug KR2Q
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