Greetings to Anthony WM3T from Bonnie KQ6XA, My comments and answers to your questions are included below: > Anthony WM3T wrote: > I was on 14.100.4 from 2005-2341z Saturday.
Technically, Anthony, your signal's occupied bandwidth was approximately 14100.1 kHz to 14100.4 kHz. > Had I known/remembered about this beacon stuff, > I would have been on a different frequency. It is nice to know that you didn't do it intentionally :) Standing up and admitting it, and deciding to change your operating procedure is a very admirable quality. You have my respect, sir. There seem to be many operators who don't know about the international beacon network. So you are not alone. There are other ops who know about it, but don't think the beacons should be protected, or don't care if they transmit on them. Those operators will get very little respect. We all realize that there was a DX contest in progress, and there may have been "the fog of war" and the "heat of competition". This "beacon stuff" is actually a well-known tool used by thousands of contest operators around the world on HF to make real-time decisions on what bands to operate. > Also, how can you be a "repeat offender" per the list when > I was there for 3.5 hours, wouldn't that be considered one > offense, technically? Most of the others on the list were only logged in one or two quick "hunt and pounce" QSOs on the beacon frequency. You were on the frequency for 3.75 hours, so naturally, yes, you were logged repeatedly... sorry about that. > 3.) If I was causing interference to the beacons, what is > the justification for sending RTTY to me for 1/2 hour trying > to get me to move? (I would love an answer to that one.) > Were they not causing just as much interference by calling me > from a different geographical region? Who was calling you for 1/2 hour? Wow, I would have really enjoyed monitoring that "exchange", but didn't copy anyone doing that. Should we add their callsign to the the list? :) I'm curious, when that station told you that you were on the beacon frequency, is that when you moved off at 2341 UTC? By the way, it was not me trying to warn you... I didn't transmit, I only monitored. > 4.) Again, how did the arbitrary 17 stations get listed and > why was I listed first? The stations listed were not arbitrary, they were monitored on the frequency. You were monitored longer and more times than most of the others, so you made "the honor roll" :) Please don't take any of this personally, Anthony. You simply were monitored on the 20m beacon frequency on Saturday. It wasn't a crime... no harm done... it was simply an inconvenience. I hope you enjoyed the contest. As a side note, years ago, I really enjoyed contesting. In 1969, my first RTTY rig was a noisy Kleinschmitt 15 with a Yaesu FLdx400. Contests are not what they used to be... paper logs and dupe sheets with spilled coffee on them and broken pencils, were all part of the game. Bonnie KQ6XA . 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[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/
