It is not clear to me from the original post whether the
complainant was someone who was operating on 50.125 or some other
"frequency cop" who was not actually making contacts on any frequency,
but just "protecting" the call frequency on some confused principle.
I've had this happen to me before, and I've even had "helpful" advice
from people who thought that my choice of a CQ frequency other than
one that is equally divisible by 5 kHz was suspect (i.e., I've
been given grief because my operation on 50.134 kHz was too close
to 50.135 kHz).
I think this is more common on six meters than HF because
propagation is changing so much on six meters when the band is open.
You may have been on a frequency for hours, but to someone else it
might sound like you just got there and you are clearly a clueless
wonder to be doing what you're doing... blah, blah, blah.
The way to deal with this in a contest is to never be emotionally
attached to any run frequency. No matter how good it has been, you
should always be prepared to adjust and maybe find a better frequency.
This makes six meters very different from the other VHF/UHF bands.
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:04:55AM -0000, John Wilcox / NS1Z wrote:
> If his equipment had been adequate he would have been too busy working
> stations to waste your time and his with this petty complaint. Remember when
> the calling frequency was 50.110? It almost seems like these slugs get their
> ham ticket so that they can annoy more people, having already worn out their
> welcome with the locals...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Gregg Seidl
> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 23:51 UTC
> To: VHFcontesting@contesting.com
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] question about 50.125 use
>
>
> 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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