[ILQSO] Fwd: JAMBOREE-ON-THE-AIR

[Hank Greeb]

Danny:

I agree with your comment.  I sent the message to the reflector because 
I thought maybe, perhaps, just an off chance that the LID who 
perpetrated this stupid exchange and caused a PR nightmare was a 
subscriber.  I've run across a few of these LIDS in my day, and usually 
manage to work around/through them, but it's never pretty nor easy.

While no one owns a frequency, common courtesy suggests, and FCC regs 
supports that intentional interference is unacceptable.

It's too bad that the fellows in Muskegon had to explain the fact that 
LIDS sometimes exist in ham radio and that they're few an far between.

73 de n8xx Hg

Danny Pease wrote:
> That is the kind of publicity we don't want!
>
> If it did happen that way, I would personally like to burn the ears of the station that did this, although we are only hearing one side of the story.
>
> Having heard several scenarios like this on the air, I also know it a problem, both overzealous contesters not being careful enough (or being totally rude) and those dead set against contester using "their" frequency to the point of causing intentional interference. One does not justify the other from either side of the fence.
>
> I was calling CQ on 3905 at about 3:30 Sunday and worked an Illinois station that indicated he was waiting for a net to start up on that frequency. I asked when the net was to start and he indicated it started at 4:30.  He was at the radio an hour before net time, I am not sure why. He did not ask I move nor indicate there was a problem, but I assured him I would be gone long before 4:30. No problems, everybody happy, at least that time. 
>
> No one owns a frequency, and no one has the right to force someone off a frequency just because they can, unless it is mandated by the FCC. Sadly, it happens and Ham Radio suffers because of it.
>
> Danny  NG9R