[CQ-Contest] Malicious Interference during SS

[Richard Thorne]

I'm curious how the malicious interference was this year.  I operated at 
K5NA this year.  I had a major problem around 14.281 this year.  I was 
sucked into a conversation with a station who would not use his call 
sign.  He told me that I was splattering so I adjusted my mic gain and 
compression.  The ham thanked me and said it was fixed.  After a few q's 
he said I was splattering again, I figured out he was playing games.  
Soon after he was transmitting recordings of my cq's.  I was able to 
work through it for a while but my rate suffered so I ended up moving.

In this particular case it was at the beginning of the contest.  I had 
made a few qso's about starting 15 minutes prior to the contest so I had 
established that the frequency was not previously used and there were no 
frequency conflicts.

So how did it go for every one else this year?  I guess in the future I 
need to add 14.280 to the list of  frequencies to avoid.  The sstv 
window has been on my list for quite some time.

Rich - N5ZC