Interesting conversation. As one those old farts, age 76 and a ham for 60 of
them, I do still have all of my teeth, most of my hair and a 59-year-old
fiancee. I guess I fail to understand the heartburn about calling frequencies.
First, they aren't FCC assigned frequencies. It is completely legal to operate
on them on a first-come-first-served basis. No one owns a frequency. Now while
it might be reasonably argued that it is bad form to occupy one continuously, it
certainly isn't the end of the world. Regularly scheduled "nets" should
certainly use a different frequency but if someone calls CQ and is answered by a
distant station I fail to see a need to immediately QSY and risk losing the QSO,
especially if it is MS.
Wes N7WS
On 6/2/2018 12:51 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
Absolutely correct! These old farts, gum beaters and false teeth clackers,
are usually running 100 watts or so to outside non-directional antennas and
are often no more than 20 miles apart. If challenged one will be told that
"we were hear first and you should move on". They do not recognize the
national calling frequency by gentleman's agreement. Seems like hours and
hours of QSO's takes place as "members" of the group come in and out during
the evenings.
I've often heard stations in the distant calling CQ and I've answered them on
the calling frequency and asked the distant station to QSY up or down 5. Then
I hear about me QRM'm their QSO. Crap such as this is one reason I stopped
contesting on VHF.
73
Bob, K4TAX
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