And if you aren't going to send a log in, you can contest on the frequencies
the contest sponsors say are off limits.
73s John AA5JG
--- On Thu, 12/3/09, Mike N0HI <mike@n0hi.net> wrote:
> From: Mike N0HI <mike@n0hi.net>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] anti-contest petition MMSN
> To: CQ-Contest@contesting.com
> Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 11:43 AM
> Similarly, the local guys had a SET
> locally here a few years back. The
> frequency they had selected for coordination was 146.52
> (you know...the
> calling frequency). The day of the SET came, and they
> found the
> frequency was busy. Sure enough, they asked the folks
> to move, and they
> wouldn't, so the whole event fell apart because "their"
> frequency had
> been "stolen."
>
> During a real emergency, what happens if 14.300 is occupied
> with other
> emergency traffic? I sure hope these guys would have
> done the planning
> ahead of time. The site lists 14.313 as an alternate
> frequency, though
> I had to dig for it. If you ask me, the chaos of a
> contest is good
> practice! Anyone can pass traffic on a quiet band.
>
> Even if they manage to track down every single contest
> sponsor and every
> single sponsor puts a "no point window" around .300, that
> will only stop
> the guys who actually read the rules every year. As
> many of us are
> aware, that is a rare breed!
>
> But hey, we're just contesters. What can we possibly
> know about
> efficiently passing information in heavy QRM/N?
>
> --
> Mike DeChristopher, N0HI
> http://www.n0hi.net
> telnet://cluster.n0hi.net
>
>
>
>
> kr2q@optimum.net
> wrote:
>
> > I did not know about this. Even more, look at
> their home page: http://www.mmsn.org/
> >
> > The petition "background" is amazing to me. I
> quote:
> > "The Maritime Mobile Service Net (MMSN) operates on
> 14300.0 KHz, 365 days a year, from 12
> > noon until 10 PM Eastern time. "
> >
> > So they effectively own this QRG for 10 hours per day,
> every day? And you have to just
> > love the precision: "decimal zero." :-)
> >
> > Additionally, they claim massive support (TIC): "This
> was the wish of all nearly 100 amateurs attending the GAREC
> meeting. "
> >
> > Wow...100 of them, huh? Let's see, if we add up
> the ops at the top 10 M/M's...that would be...
> > oh, more than 100. Not to mention the ten of
> thousands of contest participants nor the
> >
> >> 5000 entrants (SSB CQWW).
> >>
> >
> > They have a petition? We should too. Any
> volunteers?
> >
> > I'm all in favor of emergency ops taking
> priority...but only when there is an emergency. Just
> > how many lives have been lost because their NET heard
> contesters actually contesting that
> > prevented them from "doing their thing?"
> >
> > The thing that further gets me, is that they think
> that we are somehow focusing on them;
> > I guess they are unable to actually the band beyond
> their own net QRG.
> >
> > As far as I know, nobody should have exclusive rights
> to any QRG, never mind for
> > "365 days a year, from 12 noon until 10 PM"
> >
> > What brass!
> >
> > de Doug KR2Q
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