This has been raised many times during this and other debates in the Ham fraternity about the latest cause of avoidable QRM.
It is one of the examples people unhappy point to as an illustration of ARRL arrogance "do as I say, not as I do". OTOH, it is kind of silly if not looking for conflict to start a QSO on a freq one knows has been used to the benefit of thousands of Hams for 40 years at certain times of day. It remains the responsibility of the operators of W1AW to be certain the freq is clear *prior* to transmitting. Perhaps an Official Observer should cite them to make the point that no one is above the law, regs, nor common courtesy. ;-) doc > Hmmm. I have sent them a note or two in the past over exactly that. I or > someone else was using a freq and they fired up. I let them no in > unequivocal terms, that is not suppose to happen. They are no different > than anyone else on that matter, and should check every frequency they are > about to fire up, and slightly change if someone else is there. Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
