[TenTec] Fw: 68 Group Sunday's

[rrbunn at cox.net]

I've missed the last few Sunday nets, but I'm not surprised.  The question is: Do they hold the frequncy 24/7/365 as a chat channel or do they have a scheduled net?  Every Field Day,  I operate either on 40 or 75 phone and I cannot tell you how often I ask if the frequency is in use and get NO RESPONSE, but when I call CQ Field Day,  I get a ear full from some operator who informs me that "THE FREQUENCY IS IN USE" but the **&&^^%^ NET and that if I had listened, I would know that.  I would then ask politely if they heard my request and then it degenerates into "YOU DIDN'T LISTEN and YOU DIDN'T ASK.  I usually am then told that this is not a scheduled net but a frequency reserved for a group 24/7/365 for THEIR USE.  

As a licensed operator for 42 years,  I tried to follow be a good operator, but these types are out of bounds.  

After missing the Ten Tec net a few weeks ago,  I scanned the band and heard a station calling CQ.  After his third call, I responded, I'm in Alexandria and he was up in Ohio.  We had just finished exchanging names and locations when some thrid party informed us that we were interfereing with a NET.  I would have let it drop but he then informed me that my station must be deaf.  Funny,  My Paragon II hears stuff that may of the new wonder radios don't.  The third party was way over S-9.  

I have no problem on schedules and nets being plus or minus existing QSOs and no problem with sharing with scheduled nets, but this homesteading is OUT OF LINE.

73 Rick / N4ASX
---- Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net> wrote: 
> Sounds like someone's politely saying "don't poach our frequency"
> 
> Boy, are they in for a surprise this weekend.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> lmdougherty at peoplepc.com
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 3:33 PM
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] Fw: 68 Group Sunday's
> 
> >
> > Hi Friends
> >
> > The 68 Group meets each day on 7268 from 3-5 pm Eastern.
> >
> >I see your group is on 7260, this past Sunday your group was on 7270, that
> caused the 68 a group 40-60 operators each afternoon to move our group.
> >
> >In the future could you use another frequency farther removed form the 7268
> the interference was intense.
> >
> >It is nice to be a good neighbor.
> >
> >73 Larry Kn8i 7268 Net coordinator
> 
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
> 
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec