Yes all this is true Cort. And you want to know what the problem is? Ill
tell you. Inconsiderate contesters that dump on top of on-going
conversations. I personally heard this happen TWICE by AD1C or something
like that. How do I know he didn't hear the guys? I cant prove it, of
course...but just the way he was acting. He was aware of what he was doing.
Contesters have a bad name in general. We all need to work towards cleaning
up the ole act a bit.
And your right. A LOT of hams are frequency non-agile. Makes me think
everyone is using crystals only. What can I say...you ain't gonna change
it.
There really are too many contests. We need to knock off a bit in my
opinion. Of course its the major ww jobs that get the attention. I think
what the major problem is all the dang CQing going on. Its nice for the S&P
but for those not in the contest....it sure do clutter up the bands.
Just some vents on the subject...for what its worth.
Dan/W4NTI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Courtney Judd" <k4wi@earthlink.net>
To: <fdennin@numail.org>
Cc: "SECC Reflector" <secc@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [SECC] ARRL SSB
> Lewis and all, I also experienced a lot of intentional qrm this year....
> was able to recognize some of it as coming from AE4JO and his 1875 group,
> others were of European origin. Regardless, none were able to prevent me
> from running on my chosen frequency. The Timewave DSP works beautifully on
> carriers, cw and digital trash, the stack adds receive gain and nulls out
> the stateside qrmer's. Most innovative was the guy who recorded my audio
and
> replayed it back ... unfortunately the 100 watters from Euro were stronger
> than him. Worked a lot of 5 and 10 watters but I have to carry the load on
> these. Even one dude with one watt made it thru!. But things are getting
> worse and I think that we need to have more discussion or what ever to
needs
> to be addressed. Seems that a lot of hams today get wedded to a particular
> frequency and it's theirs from now on (nets need alternate frequency WARC
> for contest weekends.. common sense). Try to work a dx on contest on a
> Sunday afternoon below 28,400 and you will get all kinds of west coast
> freakies. Maybe an article in NCJ would help. Any ideas? 73's Cort
> Courtney Judd K4WI/NA4W
> 2300 County Road 61
> Uniontown, Al. 36786
> e-mail= k4wi@earthlink.net
> check out: www.59al.org
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