[CQ-Contest] 14.300 MHz

[Steve NN2NN]

Ken,

Thanks for your response.

Don't think I ws asking a whole lot with my original posting here.
We all know that no one  own's any particular frequency.
What is important to anyone is a personal choice. 14.300 MHz has become
such a well know frequency for assitance and help. Twenty meters is the
best place for such an operation because, just as the contesters know, it
has the best overall propagation throughout the day, and we do not demand
a perfectly clean frequency! The SSB portion of the band has 200 KHz and
all we are asking for is the contesters keep 14.300 in mind.

By the way, if we had a poll of the Ham community at-large of what is a
more important use of 14.300 Mhz, I think we know what the results would
be.

Please, keep 14.300 in mind next time around.

73 es GL,
Steve NN2NN



>
> If your use of the Amateur frequencies is SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than
> any other Amateur activity, perhaps you should be using a different
> radio service to accomplish these objectives.  Perhaps the Martitime
> Mobile service would make far more sense in the first place:
> http://wireless.fcc.gov/marine/  Why, exactly, is the Martitime Mobile
> Service not the best choice for mariners in need of emergency
> communications?  Is that not why the Maritime Mobile Service exists in
> the first place??
>
> From what I can tell on the web, the 14.300 MHz net was first
> established in the 1980s.  Phone contesting on 20 meters, as far
> as I know, was well established by the 1980s.  Rather than choose
> a frequency for the Maritime Mobile Net on, for example, 17 meters,
> where weekend contention for frequency space is not an issue,
> the net chose to locate itself on the single most popular HF band
> and then demand a perfectly clean frequency worldwide for 15 hours
> a day - does that even begin to make sense?
>
> Finally, is there any documented case of a genuine emergency not
> being served on 14.300 MHz because of contest activity?
>
>
> I don't think anyone objects to those with a common interest getting
> together on the radio.  But the idea that a small group owns a
> frequency, or that their use of the spectrum is inherently more
> important (even when it's far, far less popular) seems unsuited
> to the Amateur Radio Service.
>
>
> --
> Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
> kenharker at kenharker.com
> http://www.kenharker.com/
>
>