[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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