how about restricting non-contesters into a sub-band being that there would be fewer of them and more contesters.
It has always been a free for all every contest weekend for the 37 years that I have been a ham. At 12:02 PM 1/9/2007, you wrote: >Seems to me the obvious solution is to put gentlemanly behavior right >into the contest rules -- restrict contesting to a sub-band (or bands), >and deduct points for contacts made outside of those restrictions. >Perhaps there are practical considerations that make that too difficult >to enforce, though. > > Katy