[CQ-Contest] WW SSB on my mind

Thu Nov 3 08:48:41 EST 2005

Dear Korey,

With all due respect to activities of nets like that why not to consider the 
following.

Such a net is considered to be a tool to help people in trouble. Travellers 
can also suggest to count on help from the net in case of an eventual 
trouble. But it is very wellknown that there are contests and during most of 
weekends the net's frequency can be overloaded and surrounded by signals 
much stronger than the one from a small ship. The reality is, the net 
members will never convience contesters of the World to avoid this 
frequency. Moreover, most of amateurs of the World are not even awared of 
the fact, such a net simply exists. The frequency will never belong to the 
net. This is also a reality.

Back to the beginning. The net is created to help people. In order to help 
people as much obstacles and risks as possible should be eliminated. One of 
them is the fact that the 20 m band is always full and it is overcrowded 
during contests. Why on Earth the net people are stuck on the idea that 
14.300 belong to them? Do they realize that by doing that they put people in 
trouble into another trouble?

14.300 is a risky frequency in respect of possible help. Let me suggest a 
good, clear and contest free frequency. Let's say, 18.160.

Just a suggestion.

73,

Vladimir EU1SA/VE3

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "SGT Korey Chandler" <korey.chandler at us.army.mil>
To: <k7acz at cox.net>
Cc: <CQ-Contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WW SSB on my mind

>
> The contest ops could have moved up 1kc and been polite. Too easy.
>
> The Maritime Net is not a "check in and ragchew net". Sure, the net
> control stations call for check-ins and keep the frequency "occupied". I
> check into the net quite often when in the USA and have been on
> frequency when a very weak station calls in with a dead engine on a ship
> 150 miles out in the Atlantic. I've also heard medical emergencies which
> resulted in the Coast Guard coming on frequency with a doctor to give
> advice on the situation.
>
> Keeping 14.300 clear is the right and courteous thing to do. There are
> ships out there with people whose lives may depend on it someday.
>
> 73,
>
> Korey
> YI9VCQ/KA5VCQ
> Baghdad, Iraq
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
>> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Alan Zack
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:41 PM
>> To: py2ny
>> Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WW SSB on my mind
>>
>> Same type of thing on the Maritime Mobile Net at 14.300.  There would
> be
>> EU DX stations calling CQ 2 kc above or below 14.300.  As soon as
>> someone tried to answer them a Maritime Mobile Net freq Cop would get
> on
>> the freq and tell the answering station they were interfering with the
>> net.  I heard people try to ignore them and the MM Freq Cop would just
>> keep QRM'ing them so they couldn't hear if the DX station came back to
>> them.  And what was going on with the MM Net?  They were begging for
>> check-ins and exchanging signal reports trying to keep the freq busy,
> no
>> emergency traffic at all.
>>
>> py2ny wrote:
>>
>> >just like information
>> >1) First time that I lost my way,
>> >while trying to work at 20 m, and
>> >suddenly at 20h00 Z, some guys
>> >put me out of 14261 telling me
>> >that the frequency was to your
>> >exclusive use about a NET !!!!
>> >Unbelievable... I told them that I
>> >was using the frequency and them
>> >answer: "No problem PY2NY, go
>> >up or down, we will stay here"...
>> >2) I am very happy, by other side,
>> >because I heard one kid (7 or 8
>> >years old maybe) calling me into
>> >the big pileup. After calling him,
>> >your father or uncle returns, and
>> >I told that I would like to talk with
>> >the kid hi hi hi ... And was so nice
>> >to listen him again, using the call
>> >and changing info correctly. I did
>> >this way looking forward and waiting
>> >for young hams coming into our
>> >competition style of life hi hi hi...
>> >-----------------------
>> >Congrats to everybody and hope to
>> >listen you all at WW CW Contest.
>> >- vitor, py2ny -
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Vitor L Aidar Santos, PY2NY
>> >(py2ny at arrl.net)
>> >Caixa Postal 204
>> >Jaboticabal, SP
>> >14870-970 - Brasil
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>> >
>>
>> --
>> Alan Zack
>> Amateur Radio Station K7ACZ
>> Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
>> Quality Engineer, The Boeing Company, Retired
>> Aviation Chief Warrant Officer, U.S. Coast Guard, Retired
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