[DX] Re: Re: Unethical Behaviour

Alfred J. Cammarata [email protected]
Wed, 3 Dec 2003 14:15:09 -0500


A suggestion to all: If you know know for sure who it is and if he has
e-mail, perhaps a "mass mailing" from the ham community might be one way
of payback QRM!!   73 Al W3AWU  

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:54:30 +0100 Jan Erik Holm <[email protected]>
writes:
> He has done the same thing to me many times,
> VE3OGZ I think it is, it�s a shame.
> 
> 73 Jim SM2EKM
> 
> PS: Same thing will happen if you are on 14178,
> they will just come on and take over the QRG,
> offenders are KC4PE, W2ONV and some others.
> ----------------
> 
> Ron & Madhavi wrote:
> > Sorry it is a VE3 from Toronto.
> > 
> > 73,
> > Ron
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: Ron & Madhavi 
> >   To: [email protected] 
> >   Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 11:39 AM
> >   Subject: Unethical Behaviour 
> > 
> > 
> >   May be off topic but this is regarding something that happens in 
> the DX Window.
> >    
> >   I am sure many of you have heard the VE2 who operates around 
> 14.202 every morning. For years he has been carrying on with his 
> unethical operating procedures and violating just about every rule 
> as regards causing INTENTIONAL and harmful interference. As I am one 
> who prefers to ignore controversy, I have tried to ask his friends 
> to have a gentle word with him. However, nothing has worked.
> > 
> >   Thos morning 6Y5IC and myself were on 14.200, working a /MM 
> station who had problems with his Marine antenna tuner and Icom. 
> Bing a Mariner myself, I was trying to assist him. This Canadian 
> station came right on the freq and started to hurl abuses at us. He 
> then stated that the only way he will deal with the "likes" of us 
> was by taking over the freq and that we left him no other choise! 
> None of us could believe what happened next. Irrespective of the 
> fact that there was a QSO going on on that freq, he started to call 
> CQ on 14.200, where an ongoing QSO was on and proceed to work a 
> Florida station. What beats me is that he announced with pride that 
> he was teaching us a lesson! I run 75 watts to a wire vertical, 
> 6Y5IC a faulty 940S (50w) into a dipole and the Maritime Mobile a 
> 706! What can we little pistols do over a guy running a 5 element 
> monobander and an Alpha amp?! What if the maritime Mobile was in 
> some kind of distress? 
> >    
> >   I am left wondering if Canada does not have a monitoring system 
> and an equivalent of the US FCC? How can this guy carry on like this 
> daily and not be held accountable? He is a disgrace to ham radio and 
> what we all like to safeguard as a gentleman's hobby. Isn't there 
> anything anyone can do to stop people like this bullying innocent 
> users of the band? Does Canada prefer to turn a blind eye? Aren't 
> there Canadian hams listening to this nonsense day in day out? As 
> far as I see it, this man taints the good image of Canadian hams -- 
> many of who are my dear friends. Isn't there an authority people can 
> complain to and request them to monitor this guy? OR are we 
> completely at his mercy? 
> >    
> >   BTW, we got on freq long before he showed up but ended up being 
> bullied by a guy who was very open about it. I may be viewed as 
> someomne letting off steam, but am left wondering if this is what 
> has become of ham radio today? I have heard of fights over a freq, 
> but what happened this morning is something I have NEVER heard in my 
> life and wish never to hear again. 
> > 
> >   Sorry for taking up BW over this issue. If anyone has any 
> sugestions as reagrds whom to make an official complaint and a plea 
> for assistnace against this menace, please mail me direct. 
> > 
> >   73,
> >   Ron, 6Y5/4S7RO
> >    
> ,
> 
> 
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ALFRED CAMMARATA
           W3AWU


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