[CQ-Contest] anti-contest petition MMSN

[John Geiger]

And if you aren't going to send a log in, you can contest on the frequencies the contest sponsors say are off limits.

73s John AA5JG

--- On Thu, 12/3/09, Mike N0HI <mike at n0hi.net> wrote:

> From: Mike N0HI <mike at n0hi.net>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] anti-contest petition MMSN
> To: CQ-Contest at contesting.com
> Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 11:43 AM
> 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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