Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 117, Issue 20

[Jim Brown]

On 9/16/2012 11:02 AM, k6xt wrote:
> Like Tom I neither endorse nor object to digi activity, except as it 
> jams existing CW.

Jam existing CW?  What about the SSB stations down around 1820 during a 
contest? NO ONE has the right to any frequency.  Whoever gets there 
first and uses it takes priority.  OTOH, propagation being what it is, 
the big guys often don't hear the little guys, and lots of guys can't 
hear much thanks to their own local noise.  In every contest, I'll have 
been parked on a run frequency during a 160M contest, running legal 
power to a decent antenna, working east coast stations and have someone 
on the east coast who can't hear signals below S8 start calling CQ on 
top of me with a kW.  Who's jamming who?

The digi modes I operate are RTTY (almost entirely during contests), 
JT65A, FSK441, and ISCAT.  It has been my experience that RTTY, CW, and 
SSB operators are the most INCONSIDERATE about QRM to other modes, and 
that users of JT65A, FSK441, and ISCAT go out of their way to avoid 
QRMing other modes.

73, Jim K9YC