Hi Bonnie,
You are absolutely right. The only time i really have to do some DX is on
weekends but nearly always I'm confronted with the whole bands occupied by
contests. This weekend, there was a RTTY contest taking all the digi bands and
at least one on SSB so all my DX interests (SSB and digi) were vanished by
those contests. And like you said, there are a lot of complaints abt ALE
reserving one frequency per band but contests are wiping all the freqs.
Luc
VE2FXL
----- Original Message -----
From: expeditionradio
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 6:32 AM
Subject: [digitalradio] QSO or QRM? ...or Contest?
The recent RTTY contest leads one to ponder:
"Why don't we see much backlash against contests?"
By orders of magnitude, contests create more QRM
than any other cause on ham radio. They commonly
render multiple ham bands nearly unusable for
normal communications, for several days at a time.
Yet, contesters creating maximum QRM are
exalted as champions and Great Operators
by the ham magazines and organizations.
Why is a little QRM is bad,
but vast and continuous QRM is wonderful?
As quite an avid (and now reformed) contester myself,
I'm very curious about this phenomena.
73 Bonnie VR2/KQ6XA
