[CQ-Contest] anti-contest petition MMSN

[k3bu at optimum.net]

It's not just MMSN, but other QRU nut nets claiming ownership of frequencies during the contests.
In case of MMSN, why don't they just monitor the frequency during the contest, I am sure if there was an emergency, then contest station would be best off to hear it and respond, or free and pass the frequency to MMSN netsters to take care of the emergency.

Yuri, K3BU.us
www.MVmanor.com 


----- Original Message -----
From: kr2q at optimum.net
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009 7:50 am
Subject: [CQ-Contest] anti-contest petition MMSN
To: cq-contest at contesting.com

> I did not know about this. Even more, look at their home page: <BR>> 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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