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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