[CQ-Contest] anti-contest petition MMSN

[John]

BILL:
If they want 5-6 khz so badly and demand 10 hours a day 365 days a year 7 
days a week, then let them go and buy a ICOM IC-M700Pro or 710 or something 
similar in the way of a proper MARINE HF RADIO, get a proper "COMMERCIAL 
COAST STATION LICENCE" and let them have at it on any one of the available 
HF Marine frequencies that are at best marginally used thanks to the advent 
of satellite phones and cell phones. I can see if they want to have a net 
like most others for an hour, once a day like most other less greedy folks, 
but to DEMAND to have exclusive rights to an amateur radio frequency in the 
20m band is a quick way to see our bands be given away to the commercial 
users like many areas of the spectrum we are still fighting to keep......No, 
we did not work hard to get our tickets to do this to our hobby..... for 
about 100 people, I say go buy a marine SSB radio and have your net on a 
marine allocated proper frequency for that sort of thing. Hey, I did, for 
that same purpose to keep that out of our hobby.... there are too many 
people who think they can run roughshod over our hobby and make demands like 
that and some are getting away with it.... prime example: K1MAN and his 
dribble..... I say enough of this and lets get back to the traditional 
values of our great hobby and let's have some fun for a change.


very 73 de John VE7JZ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Haddon" <haddon.bill at gmail.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] anti-contest petition MMSN


> RE MMRS Petition:
>
> I have a different perspective.
>
> For the last 17 years my family has spent Thanksgiving with members and
> friends of two major sailing clubs in the SF Bay area (we are not sailers,
> however).  A  wide variety of people have attended these gatherings, which
> are usually 20-25 people.  Without exception, members of the sailing
> community have high regard for ham radio because of the services provided 
> by
> MMSN.
>
> It may be useful to look at the compilation of reported incidents at:
>
> http://www.mmsn.org/recent_events.htm
>
> MMRN is asking for about 5 or 6 KHz, a very small percentage of the 20m
> phone band.   It doesn't seem unreasonable to me particularly after 
> reading
> the list of incidents that the group has dealt with.  These stories are
> similar to those I've heard from attendees at our Thanksgiving group.
>
> 73 Bill n6zfo
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