On Sun,7/31/2016 12:09 PM, Jim Miller wrote:
So if it is a calling frequency, who calls and what is the expected
behavior if the caller is answered within the "sometime seconds" of opening?
When I use the calling frequency, it's when I hear few if any signals on
the band, and I announce a frequency up the band where I am listening.
Like K0PP, I refuse to work stations on the calling frequency.
Working on the calling frequency is bad in at least two important ways.
First, when you're using it, you often cover up other stations who want
to use it correctly. Second, because it's a calling frequency, others
who are using it, properly or improperly, will QRM you and the stations
calling you.
A year or two ago, an OT VHF operator working from a high QTH
overlooking Silicon Valley "Bogarted" the 6M and 2M calling frequencies
with high power for much of the contest that he won for our ARRL
division. If you wanted to use the calling frequency correctly, you
couldn't. I no longer work him during contests.
73, Jim K9YC
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