[CQ-Contest] MMSN and keeping 14.300 clear

[PY2NY, Vitor]

I had problems on 14.300 too, and will be hard
to push our ANATEL (FCC like here in PY) going
against free use of any frequency.
We had same kind of "nets" in Brasil and they are
always making jamming, QRM, asking for QSY...
I am sure that MMSN petition will go for "dead
archives"...
Best 73 and see you next contest.

PY2NY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Robbins" <w4pa at yahoo.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 12:08 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] MMSN and keeping 14.300 clear


> 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




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