ON4UN wrote:
>Talking about "my" frequency, I only had one
>"little" frequency "argument", with G4BUO, who drifted onto my channel.
>My logging program (N1MM, the best), logs the transmit frequency with
>10 Hz accuracy, so I know where I am. Also, I never use a RIT, I always
>use one VFO (B) to transmit, while the A VFO is used for receive, this
>way I stay "put".
Here it is from the other side:
I operate with wide filters when possible and had been on 3503.5 for
about 25 minutes. OO4UN was nowhere either side that I could hear, then
all of a sudden he sends "TU OO4UN" and starts trying to use my frequency.
My run radio doesn't have memories, nor a second VFO, and the dial and
frequency display stayed put. It doesn't have a beverage input either,
so I had the MP tuned to the same frequency so that I could use the
beverage to pick out weak ones. Some time after this frequency fight
started, I switched to receive on the MP just to confirm my transmit
frequency had indeed not changed.
After some minutes of slugging it out we had an "exchange". I told him I
had been on there for 30 minutes to which the reply was "that is a lie".
Now I don't like to hear that sort of response and tried to suggest he
consider the possibility that he was the one at fault, but that I would
not stoop to using that sort of language.
Using alt-N I made a note that the time when the trouble started was at
0628z. Now I've looked for OO4UN on the cluster and he was spotted at
0628z on 3513.4, he's then spotted on 3504.3 ten minutes later. So if
one of us had been on 3503.5 for the past 30 minutes, it wasn't OO4UN.
John, a little humility is called for and acceptance of the possibility
that you might be the one who was in the wrong on this occasion.
73, Dave G4BUO
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