KV9U
Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:15:50 -0700
Could not agree more. Unless some infraction of the rules are being made, it is highly improper for any ham to criticize another ham for their legal operations.
To my knowledge, the amateur radio rules here in the U.S. only restrict the 14.100 frequency from use by the fully automatic 500 Hz stations and the wide band semi-automatic stations which are on both sides of the 14.100 frequency. One wonders what the real agenda might be. Would it be possible that some might want to move the discussion toward "protecting" certain special frequencies. The next thing would be that ALE/HF pack/QRP/ frequencies need "protection." 73, Rick, KV9U Dave Cole (NK7Z/NNN0RDO) wrote: >Hi, > >While I enjoy the use of the beacons, (and try and stay away from the >freqs), I agree with the last post, the idea of putting them in the middle >of the band was not a scaleable, or even a well thought out solution. >Unless there has been a rule change, enforcement of this must be on a >voluntary basis, period, I saw a post about involving the OOs, and the FCC. >Has this frequency been officially allocated? If not, then involving an OO >would be real abuse of power, as they are supposed to enforce rules not >wishes. > >RANT ON: >Assuming the rules have not allocated the frequency for beacons, IMHO the >entire idea of a "Hall of Shame", goes against the amateur traditions of >tolerance... Things happen, people will transmit on the beacon freq, can't >be helped, get used to this, and stop publishing "Hall of Shame" like rants. >For that is what a "Hall of Shame" list is, a vaguely disguised rant because >someone transmitted on a sacred frequency some other folks "believe" they >have reserved, and have decided to punish those that don't "believe" by >publishing their names in a negative light. For that matter, perhaps the >beacons operators should be the first stations on the list for not listening >before they transmit, and insisting that they own a frequency to the point >they are publishing lists of people they don't like... > >Now don't get me wrong, I love the beacon system, (use it all the time), and >actually believe that it can work as long as folks don't get extreme about >things, (like publishing rants because of QRM to the beacons), I avoid the >beacon frequencies as much as possible, if however a really rare DX station >is on that frequency, I would use it in a moment. The frequency is simply >misplaced, pick a new one, then get it to the band edge, and half of your >QRM will go away. > >RANT OFF: > >Thanks, >Dave >NK7Z/NNN0RDO >http://www.nk7z.net > > > Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/