[UK-CONTEST] CQWW

[Tom Wylie]

Surely it would be appropriate to authorise a frequency outside the amateur 
allocation -

If it is so important that it is a MUST HAVE?
Hurricanes are becoming more frequent
Amarican amateurs have no control of frequencies within the amateur 
allocation

MARS have their own allocation - surely a spot frequency could be found

tom
gm4fdm

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Handscombe" <fredch at homeshack.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CQWW


> 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
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> UK-Contest mailing list
>> UK-Contest at contesting.com
>> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/uk-contest
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> UK-Contest mailing list
> UK-Contest at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/uk-contest
>