[UK-CONTEST] CQWW

[Fred Handscombe]

So if this is all so very important, and no doubt it is, why have tghese nets not relocated to 17m permanantly?

No contest QRM, ever.  Less QRM normally

It doesn't make sense to stay on 20m, unless they are looking for trouble?

73 Fred
MD/G4BWP at the airport


> Message Received: Nov 01 2005, 10:08 AM
> From: "Colin G3PSM" 
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Cc: 
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] CQWW
> 
> Food for thought perhaps in this day and age ?
> 
> 73
> 
> Colin, G3PSM
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bobby Graves - KB5HAV 
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 5:03 PM
> Subject: The Hurricane Watch Net Secures for Hurricane Beta
> 
> 
> > Anyone who loves history or not, 2005 will definitely go into the history
> > books. In fact, many of you will be able to tell your grandchildren about
> > the Tropical Weather Season of 2005.
> >
> > At this time, we have had 23 named storms, 9 of which have been major
> > Hurricanes, Category 3 or higher, 12 landfalls of hurricanes, and 10
> > landfalls of storm of Tropical Storm strength, and the season still has
> > month to go.
> >
> > The Hurricane Watch Net secured operations for Hurricane Beta Sunday
> > afternoon at 2:00 p.m. EST - 1500 UTC. The net logged a total of nearly
> 300
> > man-hours during this event.
> >
> > Beta made landfall near La Barra, Nicaragua at about 7:00 a.m. EST Sunday
> > morning. Maximum sustained winds at the time of landfall were estimated
> to
> > be near 105 mph, making Beta a Category 2 Hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson
> > hurricane scale.
> >
> > Although this past weekend was the CQ World Wide DX Contest, we managed,
> be
> > it a very hard a trying time, get information into and out of the area.
> > Unfortunately, there were lots of other reports that were not able to be
> > received due to the contest.
> >
> > Our thanks go out to all of those who realized our presence and what we do
> > who steered clear or tried to help us maintain a clear frequency.
> > Unfortunately, many of those in foreign countries do not speak English but
> > just enough to work a contest. After trying, begging, and pleading for
> them
> > to give us a clear frequency, all that happened was when finished
> explaining
> > why we needed them to move, they said, "QRZ de {callsign], CQ Contest, CQ
> > Contest".
> >
> > I for one, yes a contester myself, would like to go on record to ask that
> > the sponsoring bodies of these contests to please create a Contest Free
> > Zone. You are the ones who set the rules and guidelines for operations.
> > You schedule the event. You cannot however schedule a land falling
> > hurricane, earthquake, emergency at sea, or any other type of emergency
> that
> > requires the assistance of Amateur Radio. It would be a crime to have
> > someone lose there their life, or multiple lives, because the help of
> > Amateur Radio, their only possible means of help, because they could not
> be
> > heard or get all the information needed to help, all because of a contest
> > that could have been structured with an area of the band, not just 20
> meters
> > but all HF bands, had a Contest Free Zone. Who knows, the life that is
> > saved, or that of a loved one, just might be YOURS!!!
> >
> > As for Beta, she caused considerable damage on the island of Providencia.
> > Emily, HK0LED, reported that the island has had no electricity since 2:00
> > p.m. Saturday. There were lots of trees down, many homes without roofs,
> the
> > main telecommunications tower had been blown down, and that their was no
> > vehicle access to the island.
> >
> > As a reminder to all, you can get the latest information on Tropical
> > Activity at our website of www.hwn.org.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Bobby
> > KB5HAV
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Bobby Graves, KB5HAV
> > 1676 Ravenwood Lane
> > Home: (601) 932-5301
> > Cell: (601) 278-7304
> > Pearl, MS 39208
> > Email: kb5hav at hwn.org
> >
> > Assistant Net Manager
> > Hurricane Watch Net
> > 14.325.00 MHz
> > Webmaster: www.hwn.org
> 
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