[CQ-Contest] anti-contest petition MMSN

[Scott Currier]

Thank you for the link Bill. 

It is interesting to note that the incidents only amount to a few a year and so far nothing for 2009. 

It seems to me that the chances of having an issue on a contest weekend are pretty slim. The other thing is that when necessary the FCC will and has in the past set aside frequency ranges for use by those helping out with an actual emergency. This doesn't affect the rest of the world but it does impact US stations. 

The fact remains that these people consider their routine and non-emergency traffic to be more important than other peoples routing and non-emergency traffic. 

It isn't. 

73 and good contesting. 

Scott Currierr
KT1B
Haverhill, MA

























> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:09:37 -0800
> From: haddon.bill at gmail.com
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> 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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