[RTTY] ARRL willful interference

[Kok Chen]

On Jun 10, 2014, at 9:32 AM, Paul Stoetzer wrote:

> You are one of about two people in the world complaining about the
> ARRL's bulletin service.

This is really no different from the NCDXF beacons, which by gentlemen's agreement operate at known fixed frequencies. (And there are probably also at least two people in the world who complain about them.)

If you are near 14100 kHz and a beacon fires up, it may legally be interfering with you, but it is for the good of the community that you don't operate there.  We avoid the beacon frequencies even though, just like the case for W1AW, the NCDXF beacons are no longer very useful in the internet age (think WSPR).

You can see the statement from NCDXF regarding interference here:

http://www.ncdxf.org/beacon/beaconinterference.html

Just treat the NCDXF and W1AW frequencies as part of a general band plan.  

Indeed, as a low power operator, I would rather know precisely where W1AW might fire up and avoid those frequencies, rather than have them QSY from known frequencies and land on top of me when they attempt to avoid interfering with some other station.  More likely than not, I am too weak for W1AW to hear me.

73
Chen, W7AY