[CQ-Contest] anti-contest petition MMSN

[Idle-Tyme]

I don't want to belittle what these people do,  But I went to the 
suggested page, and started reading some of the stories, and eventually 
stopped because it was becoming clear that yes the nets did help people 
feel safer and let friends and family feel better knowing that their 
friends and family are Ok,  but as far as life and death situations as 
they are saying they are accomplishing, is far from as often as they 
say. Matter of fact of all the stories I did read none of them were life 
and death situations. The only one that I did find was the one with the 
gunshot and the pirates.

In addition, the list is 17 incidents over a decade of time!  That's 
it!  They want a clear freq 24/7, for the passing of information that 
happened only 17 times in a decade? And at least all of the stories that 
I read none were life threatening? If you added the time of the actual 
operations of all 17 incidents together,  what percentage of time is 
used in a decade?  I think my zero key would wear out before getting 
enough zeros on that number!

In addition,  think about percentages again,  Contesting,  what 
percentage of time is it actually happening that causes interference a 
year.?  Say there are what  6 MAJOR  contests a year.  And they are all 
48 hour contests, (which many are not)  but worst case say they are.  so 
six times 48 hours is, 288 hours.

A year has 8760 hours in it.  So the nets want exclusive use of that 
freq for 8760 hours a year,  yet we want to possibly interfere with it 
for a max of 288 hours,  that's only,  between 3 and 4 percent of the time!

Give me a break!

Joe WB9SBD

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Bill Haddon wrote:
> 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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