Good morning,
Firstly let me say that Mr. Zibert , VE3ZIK , who was operating DD4B last
weekend has been very gracious in his response. I did e-mail him directly
and he was totally unaware that he was interfering with emergency comms. Of
that , I am now certain. I thanked him and I also wanted the reflector to
know that we had in fact communicated directly with each other. I am
absolutely satisfied that there was no intent to interfere with our
emergency for the sake of contesting. Thank you Zrinko! I appreciate your
comments.
In my post to the reflector , I may have let myself re-live the moment and
become a bit bitter towards contesters as a whole. I would like to
apologize for that. That was not my intent and I should not have allowed
myself to get into that frame of mind. I regret offending the contest
community as a whole . I'm sure operators in the contest community have
their own stories of being interfered with in the course of a contest.
As I said in my initial submission yesterday , I have many ham operator
friends who are excellent contesters and I should have kept them in mind
while making my comments. That might have helped me mediate my response.
Again to any contesters who were offended by my comments , I sincerely
apologize.
73
Doug VO1DD
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