[PVRCNC] NX9T SOAB (TS) HP WPX SSB

[NX9T at aol.com]

CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

Call: NX9T
Operator(s):  NX9T
Station: NX9T

Class: SO(TS)AB HP
QTH: NC
Operating Time  (hrs): 2.5

Summary:
Band  QSOs
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160:   43
80:   22
40:   56
20:   73
15:   53
10:     4
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Total:  251  Prefixes = 169  Total Score =  66,417

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Lot's of  fun.  Only played a few hours due to family activities  (Harlem
Globetrotters, Basketball games, and honey-do's).  

While  I was on, all went well with the exception of one encounter with a well
known  carribean contest station (fly in operate go home type) who literally 
came
on  and stole my run frequency.  He said he had been here but had left for a  
"few
minutes" but had now come back and just started running on top of  me!  He had
been gone AT LEAST 15 minutes because I had been running  stations and didn't
hear a peep out of him until he fired up on top of  me.  He was S9+10 and I
expect that I was the same to him.  He  heard me...just didn't care.  
Apparently
thought he was entitled to the  frequency just because he had been there 
earlier.
No way.  Obviously I  wasn't going to spend my precious few minutes fighting
with him but it was a  huge downer to get on for a short time then have this
happen.  I expect  problems from the Pig Farmers on 75, hecklers, etc...but 
this
guy should have  known better.  He just didn't care.  I can see no  other
explaination.  Unless I have missed some recent revision of  contesting
rules/ethics, if you leave a frequency for 10 minutes or more you  have no 
right
to it if someone else has found the open frequency and taken up  there.  This 
was
a deliberate and clear "I don't care" from this  op.  Ohwell...I hope he does 
not
win anything with operating practices  like this (It was a SO operation).  For
clarity, this was not a resident  carribean op, it was a "fly in-operate-fly
home" type situation.

To  all the ethical, well behaved contest ops, both domestic and DX, Thank  
you!
YOU are the ones who make contesting fun!  Keep it  up.

73,
jeff nx9t


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