[CQ-Contest] anti-contest petition MMSN

[Mike N0HI]

Similarly, the local guys had a SET locally here a few years back.  The 
frequency they had selected for coordination was 146.52 (you know...the 
calling frequency).  The day of the SET came, and they found the 
frequency was busy.  Sure enough, they asked the folks to move, and they 
wouldn't, so the whole event fell apart because "their" frequency had 
been "stolen."

During a real emergency, what happens if 14.300 is occupied with other 
emergency traffic?  I sure hope these guys would have done the planning 
ahead of time.  The site lists 14.313 as an alternate frequency, though 
I had to dig for it.  If you ask me, the chaos of a contest is good 
practice!  Anyone can pass traffic on a quiet band.

Even if they manage to track down every single contest sponsor and every 
single sponsor puts a "no point window" around .300, that will only stop 
the guys who actually read the rules every year.  As many of us are 
aware, that is a rare breed!

But hey, we're just contesters.  What can we possibly know about 
efficiently passing information in heavy QRM/N?

-- 
Mike DeChristopher, N0HI
http://www.n0hi.net
telnet://cluster.n0hi.net




kr2q at optimum.net wrote:

> I did not know about this.  Even more, look at their home page: http://www.mmsn.org/
>
> The petition "background" is amazing to me.  I quote:
> "The Maritime Mobile Service Net (MMSN) operates on 14300.0 KHz, 365 days a year, from 12
> noon until 10 PM Eastern time. "
>
> So they effectively own this QRG for 10 hours per day, every day?  And you have to just
> love the precision: "decimal zero."  :-)
>
> Additionally, they claim massive support (TIC): "This was the wish of all nearly 100 amateurs attending the GAREC meeting. "
>
> Wow...100 of them, huh?  Let's see, if we add up the ops at the top 10 M/M's...that would be...
> oh, more than 100.  Not to mention the ten of thousands of contest participants nor the 
>   
>> 5000 entrants (SSB CQWW).
>>     
>
> They have a petition? We should too.  Any volunteers?
>
> I'm all in favor of emergency ops taking priority...but only when there is an emergency.  Just
> how many lives have been lost because their NET heard contesters actually contesting that
> prevented them from "doing their thing?"
>
> The thing that further gets me, is that they think that we are somehow focusing on them;
> I guess they are unable to actually the band beyond their own net QRG.
>
> As far as I know, nobody should have exclusive rights to any QRG, never mind for
> "365 days a year, from 12 noon until 10 PM"
>
> What brass!
>
> de Doug KR2Q
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