[RTTY] BEST REPLY: Re: FREQUENCY IN USE BY ... EMERGENCY NETWORK

[Jerry Flanders]

At 12:06 AM 1/6/2014, k7qq at netzero.net wrote:
>I think I would have asked for his/her Call then their state. Logged 
>the contact and called CQ
>
>K7QQ  Rex

Thanks, Rex - I think yours is the best reply I have seen. At least, 
get credit for him!  I normally do handle startup CQs on my freq in 
this way, but didn't think of it with his implied "emergency".

It probably won't happen again, but if it does, I will be ready :-)

Jerry W4UK


>---------- Original Message ----------
>From: Jerry Flanders <jeflanders at comcast.net>
>To: "Rick" <RickPalio at att.net>,<rtty at contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [RTTY] FREQUENCY IN USE BY ... EMERGENCY NETWORK
>Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:32:51 -0500
>
>Because he seemed to be declaring an emergency was in effect - I
>believe we all should respect the declaration (but ask questions later).
>
>Anybody ever seen anything like this?
>
>Jerry W4UK
>
>At 07:22 PM 1/5/2014, Rick wrote:
> >No person or group "owns" any frequency --- period
> >Why would you even respond to an unidentified call ???
> >
> >Rick - WU6W
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Flanders
> >Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 4:19 PM
> >To: rtty at contesting.com
> >Subject: [RTTY] FREQUENCY IN USE BY ... EMERGENCY NETWORK
> >
> >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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