I don't recall the prefix, but there was a W/K station ending in 5UP. Talk
about confusion if he would have been running.
73 de Sebastian, W4AS
On Nov 28, 2011, at 1:31 PM, W6SX Hank Garretson wrote:
>
> This email constitutes Official Notification that if I hear you
> sending UP in a contest, I will tune right by you.
>
> I consider UP in a contest to be bad form. I think it is unfair and
> inconsiderate for someone to take up extra kilohertz of precious
> contest spectrum. There are lots of pileup mitigation techniques that
> everyone else uses. The good guys were running at much higher rates
> than the guys I heard sending UP.
>
> One mitigation technique that works every time is to QSY. A Northwest
> Territory station used QSY to good effect in CW Sweepstakes.
>
> The first rule of contesting is to have fun (but not at the expense
> of other competitors).
>
>
> 73,
>
> Hank, W6SX
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