[CQ-Contest] MIDCARS

[Dale Putnam]

But I monitor 1.296, for weak signal dx ragchew checking into the traffic net that well follow immediately after the SStV exchange from everyone is completed, with no errors. And we have been here way before you started contesting, and will be here long after the last exchange is finished. Every hour of every day, 24x7 366 days a year... there fore, don't even think about trying to use it for something other than what we deem necessayr. and then only if it is compliant to the good of the members of this net. So, if you please, don't settle here., tune up to ... well up would work... or maybe way way down. (tongue firmly in place, behind left foot, on right side....of mouth)--...   ...--Dale - WC7S in Wy

> From: k-zero-hb at earthlink.net> To: sean at k8khz.com; cq-contest at contesting.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:12:16 +0000> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] MIDCARS> > Sean,> > Thanks for the QSO on 7257.8 this past weekend. (Yes, I looked it up.) > > "Monitoring" conveys no protection nor ownership of a frequency. I have a> copy of the ARRL "net guide" here, and it runs way over 100 pages of small> print. If we are required to avoid every QRG that someone might possibly> "monitor" for net checkins, we'd pretty much have to do our contesting on> 1.296GHz! > > As a related matter, I just renewed my license on Halloween, so I have it> handy, and the legal gobbledeegook printed on the back clearly informs me> that I don't have any rights to reserved channels. Do you expect the> Midcars folks have negotiated an FCC reservation at 7258, and had the back> of their license modified accordingly?> > 73 es beep beep,> de Hans, K0HB> --> ><{{{{*> http://www.home.earthlink.net/~k0hb > > > > [Original Message]> > From: Sean D. Fleming <sean at k8khz.com>> > To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>> > Date: 11/22/2006 6:24:54 PM> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] MIDCARS> >> > First of all. I must make note that I worked 77 sections. I wonder if> there is an award for working every providence in Canada. > > > > Secondly, I was working the contest for some time on 7.260 on SUnday> Afternoon when the midcars people were saying I was causing QRM to them on> 7.258. > > > > I know that on a contest weekend that being 3khz spacing never occurs> it is more like 2. With that said. My main question is why is it the> Midcars net goes from 0900 - 1400 hrs Eastern Time. this is 5 hours long. I> know of no other net that does this. Most of the time there is no active> QSO there but if you ask if the frequency is in use someone will come back> and say yes, they are Monitoring. Monitoring is not having a QSO. So, is> the net really that long? I believe that the MIDCARS is trying to hold the> frequency for a good cause for mobiles that want to talk and check in.> But, maybe they should ask the FCC to get that frequency as a national> calling mobile frequency. I had asked one operator who was asking me to> move what time the net was over they came back and said, "when ever the> last checkin is" I aksed if this was an open ended. I feel that this is not> right. There should be a limit placed on thier net as far as time. > > > > Sean K8KHZ> >> >> > _______________________________________________> > CQ-Contest mailing list> > CQ-Contest at contesting.com> > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest> > > _______________________________________________> CQ-Contest mailing list> CQ-Contest at contesting.com> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
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