I'm with you John.  Enough, at last.

W3BF

Karl Erb
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> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:09 PM, John McBee <jrmc...@cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/5/2015 1:23 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>>> On Mon,1/5/2015 10:54 AM, David Cole wrote:
>>> To expect the worldwide Amateur Radio community, to clear out space on
>>> every band, for the few hundred JT users, on the off chance someone
>>> might be transmitting, is simply insane and selfish.
>> 
>> I've made a lot of QSOs using the WSJT modes, but I wouldn't dream of doing 
>> so when a contest is occupying the same space. The same is true of CW or SSB 
>> on contesting bands during a contest. We hams have a lot of spectrum, but 
>> none of us owns any frequency, either individually or as a group. Contest 
>> organizers intentionally avoid the WARC bands, and RTTY contesting 
>> intentionally avoids 160M. Someone who wants to work JT65 or PSK31 on HF 
>> during a RTTY contest can QSY to 160M, 30M, 17M, or 12M. So can CW 
>> operators. At least one of these bands will usually be open enough to have 
>> fun.
>> 
>> 73, Jim K9YC
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> Not to be rude, but why is this on the Elecraft site?  It has nothing to do 
> with Elecraft!!
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> John
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