[CQ-Contest] MMSN and keeping 14.300 clear

[Scott Robbins]

> 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."  :-)
>
 
If they are after precision, they can start with "kHz", not "KHz".

These jokers gave me a hard time for two straight hours when I had the misfortune to use 14298.0 for my run frequency on Sunday during the 2007 CQ WW SSB from P40PA.  
Lots of 4 letter words, lots of (attempted, not too successful) jamming, lots of telling me to QSY, you name it.  
 
I was greatly humored by one of the self-righteous U.S. hams on the QRG who told me he was going to report my operation to the FCC.  I spelled my Aruba callsign slowly using phonetics to make sure he'd have it right for his letter to the proper authority. 
 
Scott Robbins
W4PA