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

[John Geiger]

Judging by the number of assisted vs non-assisted entries, it would appear 
that most contesters are not looking at the cluster.

73s John AA5JG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Haverty" <jack at 3kitty.org>
To: <kr2q at optimum.net>
Cc: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Disruption of Emergency Communication during 
CQWW - a suggestion


> 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
>
>
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