[CQ-Contest] Disruption of Emergency Communication during CQWW

[Timothy Coker]

Good point Tom, if it's a true emergency then the whole band is yours.

I have a collateral at work to run the ham equipment if our work radios go
down (highly unlikely). I have pushed for regencies because you can't have a
fixed plan for every contingency. Backup frequencies are one of them...

By all means, if a ham is made aware that an emergency use of a frequency
is occurring then he should move. As others have said, it also helps if the
information is widely publicized before hand.

The main thing is to learn from an experience, talk about the problems, and
mutually come up with options.

Tim, N6WIN.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Tom Mandera <tsm1 at tmcom.com> wrote:

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> > Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:16:06 +0100
> > From: "Andreas Kretzschmar" <9y4w at gmx.net>
> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] Disruption of Emergency Communication during
> >       CQWW SSB        contest
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> > areas as part of a disaster relief teams, were able to communicate on
> 3815
> > and give summaries of the situation as well as communicate with their
> > respective Emergency Operations Centres.
> >
> > During the weekend Oct 30./31. 2010 this disaster communication was
> > seriously impacted on both 3815 and 7162 kHz by the activities of the
> CQWW
> > SSB contest.
>
> While lid-ish behavior is frowned upon, period, and it would have been
> courteous to QSY, did this really disrupt *Emergency* traffic, or traffic
> related to a natural disaster but not of an emergency nature?
>
> Where's the line drawn between "Emergency" and "Useful but not
> life-threatening"?
>
> Under the FCC "any means necessary when immediate life or property is in
> danger" clause, would I have been authorized to operate out of band when
> passing this traffic?  If so, that would've also opened up the option of
> QSY-ing to the CW sub-bands without repercussions.
>
> I'm curious where the line is drawn.
>
> -Tom, KE7VUX
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