If the work of the MMSN is so important, why can't IARU grant it a frequency
just outside the ham bands? (Like MARS.)
If the work of the MMSN is so life-and-death, why would they even want to
RISK having their precious frequency be occupied? Wouldn't a dedicated MMSN
frequency, just outside the ham bands, be best for ALL concerned?
Or, like Chip says, why would they even want to be in the highest-use part
of the band anyway? What's wrong with giving them 14.120? There's hardly any
congestion there at the best of times.
73, kelly
ve4xt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Idle-Tyme" <nss@mwt.net>
To: "Bill Haddon" <haddon.bill@gmail.com>
Cc: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] anti-contest petition MMSN
>I don't want to belittle what these people do, But I went to the
> suggested page, and started reading some of the stories, and eventually
> stopped because it was becoming clear that yes the nets did help people
> feel safer and let friends and family feel better knowing that their
> friends and family are Ok, but as far as life and death situations as
> they are saying they are accomplishing, is far from as often as they
> say. Matter of fact of all the stories I did read none of them were life
> and death situations. The only one that I did find was the one with the
> gunshot and the pirates.
>
> In addition, the list is 17 incidents over a decade of time! That's
> it! They want a clear freq 24/7, for the passing of information that
> happened only 17 times in a decade? And at least all of the stories that
> I read none were life threatening? If you added the time of the actual
> operations of all 17 incidents together, what percentage of time is
> used in a decade? I think my zero key would wear out before getting
> enough zeros on that number!
>
> In addition, think about percentages again, Contesting, what
> percentage of time is it actually happening that causes interference a
> year.? Say there are what 6 MAJOR contests a year. And they are all
> 48 hour contests, (which many are not) but worst case say they are. so
> six times 48 hours is, 288 hours.
>
> A year has 8760 hours in it. So the nets want exclusive use of that
> freq for 8760 hours a year, yet we want to possibly interfere with it
> for a max of 288 hours, that's only, between 3 and 4 percent of the
> time!
>
> Give me a break!
>
> Joe WB9SBD
>
> *The Original Rolling Ball Clock
> http://www.idle-tyme.com*
>
>
>
> Bill Haddon wrote:
>> RE MMRS Petition:
>>
>> I have a different perspective.
>>
>> For the last 17 years my family has spent Thanksgiving with members and
>> friends of two major sailing clubs in the SF Bay area (we are not
>> sailers,
>> however). A wide variety of people have attended these gatherings,
>> which
>> are usually 20-25 people. Without exception, members of the sailing
>> community have high regard for ham radio because of the services provided
>> by
>> MMSN.
>>
>> It may be useful to look at the compilation of reported incidents at:
>>
>> http://www.mmsn.org/recent_events.htm
>>
>> MMRN is asking for about 5 or 6 KHz, a very small percentage of the 20m
>> phone band. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me particularly after
>> reading
>> the list of incidents that the group has dealt with. These stories are
>> similar to those I've heard from attendees at our Thanksgiving group.
>>
>> 73 Bill n6zfo
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