Hello John
Frequency fights are distasteful and I'm uneasy about prolonging it on
3830 but surely it was you who dragged it into the open by referring
in your account to my callsign and asserting that I drifted onto your
frequency; we now know that was incorrect and that you QSYed from 3513
onto my frequency.
I received a mail from an N1MM user suggesting that what may have
happened was that you accidentally hit <PAGE DN>, apparently that moves
you down 10kHz. It certainly accords with my observation - there was no
series of "?" or anything else, the first I heard of you (and I use QSK)
was "TU OO4UN" and I remember thinking something along the lines of "now
that's a novel way to try and take a frequency!" but at the same time I
was most surprised that you would do such a thing and in such a blatant
manner.
Here's a small extract from my log:
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0622 G4BUO 599 400 K8MZ 599 OH
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0622 G4BUO 599 400 AC0W 599 MN
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0623 G4BUO 599 400 W3UI 599 PA
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0624 G4BUO 599 400 KV8Q 599 OH
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0625 G4BUO 599 400 K9WA 599 IL
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0626 G4BUO 599 400 W6RBR 599 MO
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0628 G4BUO 599 400 K0SR 599 MN
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0628 G4BUO 599 400 W0DB 599 NE
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0628 G4BUO 599 400 K9ZO 599 IL
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0633 G4BUO 599 400 AA3B 599 PA
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0635 G4BUO 599 400 W3YY 599 VA
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0636 G4BUO 599 400 VE7CC 599 BC
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0637 G4BUO 599 400 K1RV 599 MA
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0639 G4BUO 599 400 W6YI 599 CA
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0639 G4BUO 599 400 N2VW 599 NJ
QSO: 3525 CW 2005-02-19 0641 G4BUO 599 400 W2CDO 599 MD
The frequency is nominal, as I said my run radio does not have PC
control. Like you I have a five-minute gap. I think this is when we
locked horns, finishing with our "exchange" and then we both moved
apart. It rather looks like my clock was a minute slow. Your log does
not indicate that you moved to from 3513 to 3503 at 0634, only that 0634
was when your first QSO on the new frequency took place. My alt-N note
records that the trouble started after my QSO with K9ZO which was at
0629, your time.
At no time during this period was I doing 2-radio stuff, nor going for a
pee. It's not as you suggest a case of my coming back after leaving the
frequency and trying to re-assert my "right".
I don't believe this was a case of frequency stealing on your part.
After we had CQed at one another several times you sent something like
"g4buo why are you doing this?" and I remember being surprised because
from my perspective I was very clearly the injured party. So I quite
reasonably replied "I have been here 30 minutes" and received the
memorable reply "that is a lie". Well it wasn't.
It's very unlikely that this can be definitively resolved, and indeed I
would not have mentioned it on 3830 if you hadn't, but the observations
from my part do support the <PAGE DN> theory. Anyway after our little
spat I think we both moved apart and I'm very glad we did because BC and
CA immediately afterwards were both multipliers for me.
73, Dave G4BUO
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