[MRCA] was Digital sigs on 5357 kc now ARRL

[Peter Gottlieb]

They routinely start transmitting right over voice users, done automatically, which makes “first come first serve” a one-way street in their favor. 


Peter

> On Nov 14, 2017, at 2:49 PM, MICHAEL ST ANGELO <mstangelo at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Contesting for the most part does not occur on the WARC or the 60 meter band so we cannot use that as an excuse.
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> Since Amateur radio operation is first come first serve the digital users have as much of a right to use that as us.
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> It seems 5357 has become the de facto digital channel. If we can find out who is using that mode maybe we can persuade them to move to a different channel since some of our radios are limited to 1 kHz tuning, or,  we should petition the FCC to move the other channels to 1kHZ instead of 500hz channels.
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> Mike N2MS
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>> On Nov 14, 2017, at 1:07 PM, WW2RDO via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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>>   Personally, I ignore that contesting stupidity.  And I encourage others to do the same.  If the ARRL is all hung up on that idiocy, perhaps the powers to be need to re-acquaint themselves with the primary reasons the ham radio community exists.
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>> Mark
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