[RTTY] ARRL willful interference

[W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu@w0mu.com>]

The person/station/operator using the frequency has every right to 
continue to use that frequency except in the case of an emergency.
The ARRL and W1AW willfully interfered with you.  Plain and simple and a 
clear violation of:
Section 97.101(d) of the Commission's Rules prohibits amateur operators 
from willfully or maliciously interfering with or causing interference 
to any radio communication or signal. 47 C.F.R. § 97.101(d).
Most of us will just move along because we are courteous operators and 
act like gentlemen.  We do not fire up our transmitters without 
listening first.  Should the the ARRL operate it's station in accordance 
with the rules and all the operating guides it has published?  I think so.
If it was one of us interfering with you Tom would you have been so 
happy and eager to move?
I don't understand why some feel the ARRL has a unicorn type mythical 
power that it is any better or knows what it better for us.  Lets stand 
behind them when they do it right.  Don't blindly follow anyone or any 
club or organization.  They all have their own motives and reasons for 
things that might not be completely obvious on a first glance.


Mike W0MU

On 6/10/2014 8:41 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> On 2014-06-10 9:41 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> > Mike, you may not have interpreted what I wrote to you in the manner
> > I intended. I've been on 3581.5kc RTTY when W1AW CW bulletin came up
> > underneath me on a weeknight. I did the reasonable thing and QSY'ed.
> > If I had stuck around on 3581.5, I would've been the one QRM'ing
> > W1AW, not the other way around.
> No Tim, you were the one being interfered with by W1AW - you were on
> the frequency when they started operating.  That you chose to QSY and
> not engage in a frequency fight was the gentlemanly thing to do in
> spite of the intentional interference from W1AW.
>
> Nobody owns any frequency and, absent an emergency that presents an
> imminent threat to life, nobody has the right to commandeer any
> frequency that is "in use".
>
> 73,
>
>    ... Joe, W4TV
>
>
> On 2014-06-10 9:41 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> > Mike W0MU writes:
> > > I have had a number of other people tell me that they have had to 
> > > leave a
> > > frequency because W1AW fired up on top of them.
> > Mike, you may not have interpreted what I wrote to you in the manner I
> > intended. I've been on 3581.5kc RTTY when W1AW CW bulletin came up
> > underneath me on a weeknight. I did the reasonable thing and QSY'ed. 
> > If I
> > had stuck around on 3581.5, I would've been the one QRM'ing W1AW, not 
> > the
> > other way around.
> >
> > I made that comment to you in the interest of helping you improve your
> > arguments against RM-11708. But instead you are just being 
> > ridiculous. ARRL
> > bulletins and code practice are very important to ham radio 
> > worldwide, and
> > it is important that they continue and not be QRM'ed. In fact I would 
> > like
> > to see published RTTY bandplans show a hole carved to allow W1AW's
> > long-standing bulletin frequencies at least on weekdays/weeknights.
> >
> > There are good reasons to be aware of ARRL bulletin frequencies and
> > schedules. This valuable public service, used by hams around the 
> > world and
> > provided by the ARRL, should not have anything to do with arguments 
> > against
> > RM-11708.
> >
> > Tim N3QE
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