Sure, I feel sorry for the "net" ... but this is an INTERNATIONAL
EVENT on a band with worldwide propagation. I've listened around
their private frequency and 90% of the strong signals were European,
Canadian and South American stations working other EU, VE and SA
stations. I seriously doubt that most of the DX stations causing
the QRM even notice the CW net.
There is absolutely nothing that an FCC declaration would do to
reduce the QRM and it would only anger those in the rest of the
world to find that US stations had effectively been prohibited
from operating on 40 during the contest.
This is just one more example of some self-important American
deciding that the rest of the world doesn't matter ... that he
will try to force American "rules" on everybody even though
the American rules are the ones that are out of step with the
rest of the world.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of John Fleming
> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 3:32 PM
> To: rtty@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY Interference to Hurricane Rita Ops
>
>
> ****************************************************
> ** Both sides of this discussion have some merit. **
> ****************************************************
>
> > I have no sympathy for fools lacking an ounce of common sense.
> > To demand that the whole world give them a QRM free frequency
> > ten times wider than they need just adds to the legend of the
> > "Ugly American."
>
> However, isn't it pretty "ugly" to have the attitude "I don't
> care if you're
> trying to locate Bill's granddaughter, I need Nevada for a
> mult!" Misguided
> frequency choice and other planning of the nets don't give
> contesters the
> right to simply overwhelm them and call them "fools".
>
> I'll admit that I've been RTTY contesting in that segment in
> past years and
> heard some CW. Did I listen carefully to hear what they were
> doing or just
> answer the "CQ Test" and figure the CW guys "should have
> known better than
> to be there during an international RTTY contest? You
> probably know the
> answer to that.
>
> Hopefully most RTTY hams didn't know they were causing
> interference. If
> someone did know what the CW ops were doing and left their
> auto-CQ/KW going,
> I think that's wrong.
>
> ;-) 73 - John, WA9ALS
>
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