Hello All, The chair holders will not win the contest, so let them stay on their frequencies and miss a lot of multipliers. In my opinion a much bigger problem is the stations with (deliberate) CLICK, making several kHz useless for other stations! They completely ignore when they are told about problems with their transmitters. Thanks to all I worked in the contest.
Vy 73 OZ7YY Finn -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] På vegne af Agelos-SV3RF Sendt: 31. januar 2011 21:43 Til: [email protected] Emne: Topband: To Topband Contesters ( 1 Day After) Hello All, I just want to express some thoughts about this particular contest, with more and more participants every year, at least in my opinion. It really is nice to meet so many Topband Lovers in just one weekend, but the size of the Band remains the same and this produces a chain of problems to all of us. It is like having 5 chairs and 100 people who want to sit on them. Several fellows moved out of the range of the band and some "policemen" undertake their duty publishing the illegals in the cluster as a punishment..!! The common practice is to fight for one chair (QRG) and hold it ,until the end of the contest, if possible. For those with BIG setups the chair is not in danger, none can even get close to them, but for many others the fun is shrinking, as they don't have any chance for a constant CQ-TEST.This is not fair, not democratic and finally against any sense of morality. I don't get myself out of this and last weekend I was one of the chair OWNERS...!!! ..hi.. Maybe in some other continents things are a little bit better ,but in EU the fun is accompanied by a lot of frustration. Well, nobody is violating the rules. But if these rules are not just, maybe the Topband contest community should be willing for a change. A change could be a CQ TEST time limitation. For example: every station must leave the QRG after a maximum time of 15 or 30 minutes , moving at least 10 khz away. It would be easy to check from the log, but also the aspirants to the QRG , waiting aside, won't give any chance for illegality. Some of you out there may have better ideas but , above all , we must agree weather it is time to do something . Fun for all is more fun. Greetings to all (contesters or not) de SV3RF Agelos _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
