[NLRS] use of 144.200 in contests

[tosca005 at umn.edu]

Ron:

I am not sure what John you are referring to, since you didn't quote his 
reply at all nor did you address a reply to him directly, only via the NLRS 
maillist. But it was obvious (to me or to other operators named John) that 
it wasn't me.

The grumbling that Paul mentioned was made on the radio rather than on 
email. Imagine that, hams talking to one another using "the ether" (radio 
waves) instead of Ethernet.

Since I was a thousand miles (give or take) from the NLRS area during the 
January contest I can't comment on any improvement in the use of the 
calling frequency, but I am glad to hear from other maillist postings that 
there was at least some improvement.

Down here in Texas, K0MHC made a big pitch for people to get off of 
144.200, and publicized the fact that we ("the Hill Country Rovers") would 
be listening on 144.210 MHz. Much to my surprise, folks down here took that 
to heart, and there was more activity on 144.210 than there was on the 
144.200 MHz calling frequency. I guess that was a good thing, since 
activity levels down here were so light that we were happy to be able to 
find people listening to our chosen frequency.

(Separate travelogue on my Texas-to-Oklahoma-and-back rove to follow in a 
while.)

73 de W0JT/R


On Jan 20 2014, Ronald Bergantzel wrote:

>
>
 He'll John !! Thanks , I was referring to the "mumbling and 
grumbling" that Paul was mentioning....... the national calling freq 
has been used as such here. Say , John , I didn't hear you during the 
contest , just wondering if you were busy then ??? ( Or using a different 
call) As always , I am open to any civil discussions regarding calling freq 
operations . 73!! Ron KA0RYT EN35
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