Good afternoon, My name is Doug Card, callsign VO1DD. During the contest period , specifically Sunday on or about 1235Z , our maritime mobile net was involved with a vessel who had declared an emerge
Hmmmm Sorry you have no respect for all contesters I am sure there are at least a few contesters that have zero repect for you However the majority of both groups respect others and I would hope you
Doug, Was the radio on the ship crystal controlled? If so, there was a problem. If the radio actually had a VFO, did you ever consider tuning around (i.e. higher in the band) to find a clear frequenc
Doug, You sound like a sincere and level headed op from this post and thank you for the service you are providing to the ham radio community. Here are a couple of my opinions on the situation you des
1. Just because you think your 600 watts should be loud in Germany doesn't mean that you were louder than whatever European QRM DD4B might have been experiencing. It seems kind of presumptuous of you
Funny that nobody picked-up this two strange things stated by VO1DD: 1. This is a frequency used by the Mississauga maritime mobile net which is on 24/7 @ 1245Z. 2. This vessel had been having diffic
*In the USA*, a specific section of Part 97 reads: § 97.403 Safety of life and protection of property. No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur station of any means of radiocommunic
Author: "Richard F DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:48:33 -0500
According to DX summit, DD4B commenced CQing on 14.124 at 1251z. You can't really say that he was on your frequency as he was 1.5 KHz above from 14.122.50 and, with 250 Hz of filtering, would very li