[CQ-Contest] Non Malicious Interference

[Tod -ID]

You are absolutely correct Tom -- there is no way I would knowingly call on
top of any station. My recording of the SS last weekend has many, many
segments where I asked three times if anyone was using the frequency
[carefully listening each time] before I started calling CQ. Whenever anyone
said "Yes" or anything else that suggested it was a busy frequency I moved
on. 

I figure that most of the guys I grew up with [the check class of 51 through
59, and probably later ] do the same thing. Life is too short for us to be
deliberately mean to one another during a contest. Aggressive competition
doesn't mean 'win at all costs' as far as I am concerned.

As far as the splatter -- when I checked the RF envelope with a scope there
was no indication of over modulation. I heard the distorted recording of my
signal and decided I should change bands so that the malicious interference
would stop.

Again, I am sorry for the problems my encounter with KZ8O caused for other
guys. Had I known about him before hand I would have quickly QSY'ed when he
first said something to me.

Tod, K0TO




> 
> There was a time on Sunday afternoon on 20 when K0TO called 
> CQ repeatedly on top of W7RN. There were stations calling 
> K0TO that went unanswered. Matt put out a packet appeal 
> asking Todd to check his switch settings and it eventually stopped. 
> 
> Knowing Todd for more than 30 years, malicious QRM is the 
> last thing I would ever suspect from him.
> 
> Tom Taormina, K5RC
> Virginia City NV