I saw that on the DX cluster while working on a tcl script. "Contesting on 14300 is Prohibited"Originally Posted by N8YX
I was like lolwut?
I saw that on the DX cluster while working on a tcl script. "Contesting on 14300 is Prohibited"
I was like lolwut?
They won't ask, let alone ask nicely.The thing that the SSTVers, net-noids and all the other complainers should realize is this:
If someone's using your favorite frequency and you ask them nicely to move due to a scheduled net, most people will accommodate your request.
If someone comes on and DEMANDS that whomever had the frequency give it up because their group (or their "mode of choice") owns it, they can go pound sand. Kilowatt for kilowatt, you're not budging a well-designed contest station and the interlopers know it. So they play their games..."blubberlips"...whistle, scratch the mic and send CW 'QRM loops' over and over again in the hopes they'll run those damned contesters OFF the bands.
Especially amusing are hams who cling to the ARRL band plans as Holy Writ, superceding that which has been laid down by the FCC. A relative newcomer to the hobby gets a pass when they spout this stuff. An OF ("ham God!") who should know better? Ain't happening. If your favorite SSTV frequency is tied up then go find another and transmit there.
And I love that the same schmucks who are now claiming the band plans as gospel (a most appropriate week for that, dontcha think?) are the same ones who, just a few short weeks back, where kvetching and moaning about the proposed changes to the band plan by IARU R2 -- specifically, who the hell were the IARU & ARRL to tell them where to operate, don't they know that they don't need no stinkin' band plan?
Nothing like a little hypocrisy for your post-contest critique.
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Contests aren't allowed on the WARC bands, nets should be banned from the non-WARC bands. I caught some of the advanced ass-hattery going on Saturday on 14.300. Amusing in a short bus sort of way.
I am surprised at such a sudden deterioration in a woman whose only ailment was a lazy anus.
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