Re: [digitalradio] QSO or QRM? ...or Contest?

2007-10-22 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Bonnie , this is essentially a repeat of your point from several months ago. It is essentially trolling. I will close this topic. Andy K3UK On 10/22/07, expeditionradio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recent RTTY contest leads one to ponder: Why don't we see much backlash against contests?

Re: [digitalradio] QSO or QRM? ...or Contest?

2007-10-22 Thread bruce mallon
--- expeditionradio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [digitalradio] QSO or QRM? ...or Contest?

2007-10-22 Thread Luc Fontaine
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

Re: [digitalradio] QSO or QRM? ...or Contest?

2007-10-22 Thread Roger J. Buffington
expeditionradio wrote: The recent RTTY contest leads one to ponder: Why don't we see much backlash against contests? More flame bait. de Roger W6VZV