I'm not in anyway saying that what happened was OK but after all it was a contest. Not like it happens all the time.
But look at the good side. Lucky it was not a CW contest. John, W0JAB Louisiana, Missouri EM49lk Pike county for the county hunters. At 10:56 AM 7/18/2010, you wrote: >I had 3 interruptions from 3 different stations during an Oliva 8/500 net last >night on 80m within about a 5 minutes timespan. > >And, BTW, I know for damn sure they could see and hear my signal as I switched >to RTTY at 50w on all stations and repeated "the frequency is in use" until >the moved. > >I don't think anyone should suggest limiting to contests to fixed frequencies, >but it damn sure would be nice if some of the mindless RTTY contesters would >start showing some common courtesy by listening a second or two before >stomping on QSO's in progress. > >-Dave, KB3FXI
