[CQ-Contest] 10M NAQP Weirdness

[Mark Beckwith]

K5RC, the victim of the alien shenanigans, wrote:

>If they were looking for recognition, I hope they are
>subscribed to this reflector. You got your
>15 minutes of fame.

This has been a quite interesting thread.

Here is one realistic possibility - it was man-made, intentional, but the
culprit was not a contester or ham at all.  Given that it happened in the CW
portion of 10 meters, there is a sizeable non-ham population there which has
not been mentioned (if it was I missed it) which could, in their own
misguided way, take great exception to last Saturday's running of the NAQP.

The times I have been parroted as a means of intentional QRM during contests
have always been on phone, presumably by non-contester phone ops who take
exception to our overly efficient use of their own personal domain.  This is
not a new trick.  The first time I remember it was in 1986 on 20M SSB.

Our CW completely tears up the plans of any of the people who use that part
of 10 meter for phone conversations.  It seems realistic to me that at least
one of them would have nothing better to do than attempt to "do something
about it."

Boy, they really showed us, didn't they?  I'm shakin' in my shoes.

So I am thinking it was probably an illegal CBer.

Mark, N5OT