[CQ-Contest] VO1DD Emergency QRM

[Pete Smith]

Doug, in a world (and particular environment) where too often discussion 
descends into rancor, your e-mail was a wonderfully refreshing 
exception.  Thank you for an exceptionally gracious last word on this 
subject.

73, Pete N4ZR

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On 12/1/2010 7:40 AM, DK Card wrote:
> Good morning,
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> Firstly let me say that Mr. Zibert ,  VE3ZIK , who was operating DD4B last
> weekend has been very gracious in his response.  I did e-mail him directly
> and he was totally unaware that he was interfering with emergency comms.  Of
> that , I am now certain.  I thanked him and I also wanted the reflector to
> know that we had in fact communicated directly with each other.  I am
> absolutely satisfied that there was no intent to interfere with our
> emergency for the sake of contesting.  Thank you Zrinko!  I appreciate your
> comments.
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> In my post to the reflector , I may have let myself re-live the moment and
> become a bit bitter towards contesters as a whole.  I would like to
> apologize for that.  That was not my intent and I should not have allowed
> myself to get into that frame of mind.  I regret offending the contest
> community as a whole .  I'm sure operators in the contest community have
> their own stories of being interfered with in the course of a contest.
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> As I said in my initial submission yesterday , I have many ham operator
> friends who are excellent contesters and I should have kept them in mind
> while making my comments.  That might have helped me mediate my response.
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> Again to any contesters who were offended by my comments , I sincerely
> apologize.
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> 73
>
> Doug  VO1DD
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