[CQ-Contest] anti-contest petition MMSN

[VK4TI]

Surely an April 1 hangover....

A net that runs ten hours per day ?? They are obviously passionate about
their cause... We have a similar problem in VK with the 7060 net on 40M - if
you are contesting in mornings anywhere near the frequency they will come up
on top of you regardless...sadly it was originally a DX net but these days
with a plethora of low dipoles in a VK4 to VK3 ragchew..

Trent 



kr2q 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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