[RTTY] FREQUENCY IN USE BY ... EMERGENCY NETWORK

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

That was a WINLINK operative - you were in their sacred automatic
band.

Did anyone notice how many times the winstink crap fired up on top of
existing activity this weekend above 14095??   I did, and that fact
will be in my reply comments.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 1/5/2014 7:18 PM, Jerry Flanders wrote:
> So there I was, enjoying a nice run in the RU on about 14.133 at 23:54
> or so and all of a sudden a station that did not ID itself told me
> "FREQUENCY IN USE BY NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY NETWORK PLS
> MOVE TO ANOTHER FREQ THX".
>
> Well, I acknowledged and immediately moved down a few KHz and tried to
> finish the RU, but after 23:59 I went back up and tried to find some net
> activity, but could not.
>
> Anybody run into this before? Maybe there was a real net there that I
> was inadvertently QRMming, but since the guy did not ID and I didn't
> hear any activity there, I wonder...
>
> I lost several Q's because of this (the freq I left was very hot).
>
> BTW, I couldn't find any emergency net reference by GOOGLE.
>
> Jerry W4UK
>
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