The purpose of the calling frequency is to call and
make QSOs. It is not the listening frequency.
73s John W5TD
--- Gregg Seidl <k9kl@centurytel.net> wrote:
> Last night( 6-02) 6 meters was wide wide open here
> in EN64.The band was
> fairly full of signals from 125 thru 200 or so.I
> found an opening at 127.5
> or so.I heard or saw on the scope that there was
> someone on 125 and also on
> 130.They were NOT bothering me at all,I would assume
> I wasn't bothering them
> at all either.They were strong and I was told I was
> strong as well,the band
> was in great shape.I had a gentleman give me a hard
> time for being "too
> close" to the call freq.A real hard time,borderline
> harassment.I try to do
> the right thing.I would never sit on the call freq
> and ragchew IF the band
> is dead.I thought dead band you call on the call
> freq and then qsy if you
> get into a qso.Open band is another story,call where
> you can find some room
> but maybe not on 125 which I wasn't on anyway.I
> don't claim to know
> everything but I have been on vhf/uhf for about 12
> years now and never had
> that happen to me on vhf.Run into that on hf once in
> a while but not on 6
> meters.I did end up moving,trying to get away from
> this gentleman and those
> who followed me told me I shoudl told him to stick
> his mike .....well you
> know.I had a huge pile-up,and I was trying to give
> the deserving my somewhat
> rare EN64 grid square.So I was workimg them fairly
> quickly with a little bit
> of ragchewing if I had been close to thier QTH on
> some of our NASCAR
> trips.Did I do something wrong by doing that.Please
> let me know one way or
> the other,I can take if I was wrong.I'm a big
> boy.Life is still good and my
> glass is half full but this guy rattled me. Gregg
> K9KL
>
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