[PPRAANet] PPRAANet Digest, Vol 84, Issue 2

[W. Harris]

Rick,
You are being too sensitive about this. Your signal has bandwidth, even your CW signal. If you operate right on the band edge some of your signal will be out of band. Just stay a couple of KCs inside. The OO was doing his job, better that he sends you a notice than the FCC. Use this as a learning experience, don't give up a wonderful hobby because of something so trivial, we need to keep good hams in the service. As far as your comments on the DX stations, that is just poor operating practices and bad manners, not really an OO concern.

Bill - K5MIL
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Rick W?RIC
>   To: Telepresence Forum
>   Cc: Al Reeves ; mhdxa at mhdxa.com ; OB-MJ ; tonyandginger D'Ercole ; Rich 
> W9RG ; Grand Mesa Contest Club ; Hank W0CZE ; Larry ; Richie W1STT ; John 
> Ayres ; chris&chantal ; raymond ; Don K2DC ; ARS K?KE Keith ; William 
> Sawders ; Walt K1QS
>   Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 9:08 AM
>   Subject: [MHDXA] This was the last straw!
> 
> 
>   Yesterday I received not one but two Official Observer cards. Both 
> basically said I was "out-of-band".
> 
>   The first one was from the WPX contest saying that on 14.225 I was 
> "transmitting out of band". WTF? My General licence says I can TX from 
> 14.225-14.350
> 
>   The second Official Observer notice came from a CW DX contact on 14.025 
> saying I was sending CW too close to the "BAND EDGE" of my licence.
> 
>   CW on the band edge? WTF???? Are you kidding me?
> 
>   OK, so explain to me why is it when we call CQ DX on 14.240 and stateside 
> stations QRM we don't hear about these great Official Observers sending 
> cards to them?
> 
>   Also, what about the stations who call over the DX, don't run split and 
> don't hear the DX and actually call the DX on the wrong frequency? What are 
> these great OO's doing?
> 
>   So I was up all night thinking about all this. I've decided to give it all 
> up.
> 
>   I am in the process of listing everything on eBay & eham. Tower, 
> antenna's, radio's, amp's, mobile etc. It all goes.
> 
>   Its been fun knowing all of you and maybe in a decade I'll reconsider the 
> hobby like my good friend Wayne, N0UN did but for now, I AM DONE!
> 
>   All the best to all my friends and I hope we remain good friends.
> 
> 
>   73
>   Rick
>   W?RIC
>   www.w0ric.com
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