[Elecraft] ELECRAFT NET: Would the Elecraft Net be seen as "contesting" If it was on 17m?

[Dick Foster]

Ah, that a QRP contest would dominate the bands...  a vision of Nirvana.

30m is a great band!  All the bands are better or worse at some times of the
day and year.  But, above 10.115 MHz it's usually pretty dominated by RTTY
which I guess is commercial?

Dick W5TA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
To: "W2AGN" <w2agn@w2agn.net>; "Stephen King"
<frstephenk@stfrancishigh.org>; <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] ELECRAFT NET: Would the Elecraft Net be seen as
"contesting" If it was on 17m?


> The contests they are concerned with are the ones that completely dominate
a band while they are running, as in sweepstakes, CQWWDX, etc, etc. The idea
at minimum is to make sure that spectrum is free for other purposes during a
contest. As significant, the WARC bands are not as well suited to contests
in general. Narrow, power restrictions, frequency sharing world-wide, etc.
>
> Exchanging K2 numbers won't get on their radar.
>
> 73, Guy
> >