[CQ-Contest] Malicious Interference

Terry Gaiser w6ru at lightspeed.net
Sat Mar 6 15:10:38 EST 1999


I can't believe that Mr. Paul Kluwe would be a part of this.
Terry W6RU

Bruce Sawyer wrote:
> 
> Good Morning Sir,
> 
> I have found that you are the trustee for club call K0TEX, issued to the
> Red River Radio Club, so wanted to bring an issue to your attention
> involving the misuse of that call.  Please understand that I am not
> accusing you of anything, but since you are the person who has oversight
> for the use of that club call there is a problem of which I think you
> should be aware.
> 
> I was operating in the ARRL DX Contest this morning, 6 March.  I was on
> 15m at about 1300Z when I received a call from K0TEX.  I answered the
> operator, and he gave me a report of "59 Vagina".  I went back and asked
> him for a correction on the state, and told him what I thought I heard.
> His answer:  "Yeah, I just wanted you to know you're an asshole."  Then
> he continued jamming me for the following 10 minutes or so.  I
> completely ignored him and kept working other stations.  The operator
> was doing his best to prevent me from making contacts, but they were
> getting through anyway.  Then the operator got an inspiration of how to
> cause more trouble.  He began CQing on my frequency with my call,
> ZF2NT.  I did hear several people answer him, and he gave them my
> report.  He was also answering other calls which may or may not have
> been real, but I could not hear them.  At that point I just changed
> frequencies, so I don't know what may have transpired after I left.
> Needless to say, there are now some people who have my call in their
> logs but who are not in my log.
> 
> Again, I am not accusing you personally of this behavior.  But since you
> are trustee of that call I think you would want to take steps to ensure
> that people using this call are not permitted to use it in the future in
> ways that would reflect negatively on you.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Bruce Sawyer, ZF2NT/N6NT
> 
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