That may be true, and if I had remembered their freq/time. etc. I would not have been on there to start with, but now that I think of it, I probably answred someone elses CQ there. If I do remember, the schedule printed in QST does say a freq + or _ a couple of KC. I wonder how many (percentage?) of times they do actually move if they hear someone on. The trouble with an OO getting involved in this type of thing is that they often do not hear both ends of a conversation also.
On the other hand, I do not feel at all obliged to vacate a frequency where a scheduled transmission or net is going to meet, in say half an hour. That frequency can easily be used right up to a few minutes before the net meets, especially by someone who knows about it, and is using the freq in order to not only to communicate, but in order to keep it available for use as soon as the net is ready. I was not amused when I was on the frequency expected near where the 3y operation was to be at a certain time, to open up the bedlam, and I was talking to someone else there prior to that. The renta-a-cops showed in all their glory showing their IQ They yelled "QRL" (no one was talking but us), busy (same thing), "up up up up", guess they meant we should be working split while talking,: and things I would not care to repeat here on a family orientated hobby group. Even after we said "Yes we know they plan to use this frequency, and when they come up we will clear off" It made no difference to the weak minded and willful. We were on "their" frequency - after all they WERE listening to lit. The feeding frenzy was already on, and it wasnt even time for the zoo keepers to open the gate. ----- Original Message ----- From: "doc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <digitalradio@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:06 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: NTS and traffic handling and digital > 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 > > > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.12/265 - Release Date: 2/20/2006 > > 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/
