On 4/3/07, D. Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now, there is a contingent of rabid, anti-AM, Extra class operators in 5-land, many from the Houston area, who just fire right up on top of any existing AM QSO they choose, and then proceed to gripe about the AM QRM. I call them a dead-air group, because one of their tactics is to simply monitor the frequency and not transmit, for periods ranging anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour or more, but just the instant that someone outside their little "group" fires up near the frequency, especially if that person is on AM, the frequency is suddenly "in use". I have monitored their conversations a few times (little else to do, since I don't hear much, if any, AM in that part of the band) and heard them conspiring to send a massive number of complaints to Riley about the "deliberate interference" and "splatter" from the AM'ers. I have never heard anything from the FCC on this, but remember what happened when the "No-Traffic" net conspired to send in complaints about Ashtabula Bill on 7290 kc/s.
Get a video camera and video/audio your rx for 30 minutes with you in the room and get it recorded Don! There are some 4 landers on 3725 (W5RED is one of them) that do the same thing. Next time I ask if the freq. is in use after listening for 20 minutes and he comes on and says "Ohhhh YES, it is", I'm going to do just that, send it to Riley H. If we don't start to do something about it, there is no need us griping about them either. ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
