[CQ-Contest] Disruption of Emergency Communication during CQWW - a suggestion

[Jack Haverty]

On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 10:54 +0000, kr2q at optimum.net wrote:
> There is just no way that a "local" emergency that originates just
> before or even during the
> contest period is going to be able to get the word out the contest
> community. 

How about spotting the emergency frequency with some readily recognized
identifier - e.g., "3815.0 QRRR".  Do this from stations (even fake
ones) from all sorts of locations so the spot gets through most packet
filters.  Do it often, even automatically.  Spot +- a KHz also, to
provide a little room for the emergency nets, and make the spots even
more prominent.

That wouldn't get to everybody, but at least all the contesters with
bandmaps would quickly know, and some of them might even act as a sort
of frequency police to tell anyone who is CQing that the frequency is
busy for emergency use.  "QRT QRT" could become a well-known
interjection for contesters to identify an emergency frequency like "UP
UP" is for DXing.

73,
/Jack de K3FIV