I guess I will jump in here.
He has given me a headache more times that I care to remember, even in a
casual event such as the Texas QP.
I have tried to avoid this area of 20m but I remember one time last year
where I was followed no matter where I went.
Will flooding the FCC office with emailed recordings do any good?
What if suddenly they are hit with a few hundred emails/recordings?
> I experienced blessedly little intentional interference this year in
> phone SS. W4QG and I split the op time about down the middle but found
> ourselves in the extra-class portion of 20m most of the time. I don't
> know if it impacted the interference we would have received, but we
> did run most of the contest with no speech processor on Paul's MP. I
> tried turning it on for a while, but I think it needed some contact
> cleaner as the control was very touchy and erratic.
>
> I'm well aware of KZ8O and his propensity for intentional
> interference, particularly toward contesters. K4XS has had problems
> with him during phone SS for a number of years now. This year another
> FL station mentioned to me in a private phone call that KZ8O tried to
> jam him near the beginning of the contest but he was able to run him
> off.
>
> The critical step we should take (in my experience) is to ignore the
> intentional interference as completely as possible and move if rate is
> impacted. Part of what KZ8O and other jammers want is to engage the
> contester in a battle of words on the band, resulting in both stations
> looking pretty foolish. Of course, the jammer is already intentionally
> interfering with ongoing QSOs, so they've got a little bit less to
> lose in that regard.
>
> 73,
> Chris WF3C
> Orlando, FL
>
> Op @ W4QG
>
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:02:43 -0700
> From: "Tod -ID" <tod@k0to.us>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Malicious Interference during SS
> To: <KI9A@aol.com>, <rmthorne@suddenlink.net>
> Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com
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>
> I had this happen when operating in the vicinity of 14.275 MHz. The
> station
> who declared he was hearing splatter said his call was KZ8O and he was in
> Michigan. I checked with a number of other stations in OH and MI after
> that
> and got assured that there was no problem. Later NX7TT called me to tell
> me
> that this station is famous for making such claims and for recording and
> replaying a person's transmissions on the air -- horribly over modulated.
> He
> did that using my signal and operated about 500 Hz off of my frequency.
> The
> splatter was appalling.
>
> In the end I switched to 40 meters rather than have him hassle me and crud
> up the band with splatter [supposedly caused by me] and ruin things for
> other folks. I hope no one was significantly affected by his efforts. I
> assure you it was not me generating that 'bad stuff'.
>
>
> After the SS had ended I checked his entry in QRZ. There were more than
> 21,000 hits. Then I did a Google search and found he has been sent
> warnings
> by the FCC that go back to 2000. I suspect there are other stations who
> operate in the segment of the band --- the one he patrols -- who can give
> us
> more information.
>
> Tod, K0TO
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
>> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of KI9A@aol.com
>> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 8:53 PM
>> To: rmthorne@suddenlink.net
>> Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Malicious Interference during SS
>>
>> Rich, I had this happen to me before on 20..the recorded CQ
>> thing. I actually worked stations, and thanked the offender
>> for giving me a break, and letting him do the work for me,
>> while I logged the points. He stopped right then.
>>
>> Best thing to do, if you have a 2nd rig, is keep on keeping
>> on. Use the 2nd rig at that time to S&P, he will bet very bored.
>>
>> 73- Chuck KI9A
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 11/20/2008 9:32:37 P.M. Central Standard
>> Time, rmthorne@suddenlink.net writes:
>>
>> I'm curious how the malicious interference was this year. I
>> operated at
>> K5NA this year. I had a major problem around 14.281 this
>> year. I was
>> sucked into a conversation with a station who would not use
>> his call sign. He told me that I was splattering so I
>> adjusted my mic gain and
>> compression. The ham thanked me and said it was fixed.
>> After a few q's
>> he said I was splattering again, I figured out he was
>> playing games.
>> Soon after he was transmitting recordings of my cq's. I was
>> able to work through it for a while but my rate suffered so
>> I ended up moving.
>>
>> In this particular case it was at the beginning of the
>> contest. I had made a few qso's about starting 15 minutes
>> prior to the contest so I had established that the frequency
>> was not previously used and there were no frequency conflicts.
>>
>> So how did it go for every one else this year? I guess in
>> the future I need to add 14.280 to the list of frequencies
>> to avoid. The sstv window has been on my list for quite some time.
>>
>> Rich - N5ZC
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