hmmm. you must be hearing someone from further east. I am a regular there and some of the regulars here in the southwest welcome visitors. Unfortunately, we have a few bad apples in the extended group and most of us out here don't interact with them much.
-eric (n7zzt)
On May 15, 2015, at 10:12 PM, Phil Scovell wrote:
> A couple of nights ago, I once again was monitoring 71 95 and that humongous
> group to lays claim to that frequency as if it were bought and paid for. I
> told you about the two brothers talking, well, this was after that; the next
> night I believe. Anyhow, one of the regulars on 71 95 said to another guy
> who commonly is there, "I heard you up 1 KHz a little earlier." The guy
> replied and said he had heard the guy calling CQ so he answered him on 71 96
> and was going to move down 1 KHz to their main channel but there were loud
> signals above and below that would have caused problems hearing the weaker
> signal. So, in short, he talked to the guy, a non channel member of the
> group, for 30 minutes. The original guy commented that he should not be
> doing that any more because 71 95 was there frequency. The guy kept
> apologizing but the original station didn't seem to think he was worthy of
> being forgiven for his mistake. I know some of you are thinking that they
> are just joking. So did I at first but after hearing them pound other guys
> into the ground for being too close to their frequency, I realized they
> weren't joking. A couple of the guys, and this is my most recent report,
> made it very clear, 71 95 was their channel and that anybody with 3 KHz up,
> or down, from that was fair game. I've listened to these guys during
> contest weekends, and you can toss Field Day in with this, too, and these
> guys go up and down 3 KHz and clamor for the contesters to get the hell off
> their frequency. So 71 95 isn't open nor is it open on 40 meters from 7192
> up to 71 98. This is quite important because these guys have a cow if you
> come any where near their channel. In the CB days, each channel often had
> what they called a channel commander. That's what I want to be when I grow
> up is a channel commander. The 2 meter repeater club I was a member of for
> many years called me the repeater club's online Chaplin. I got to take up
> offerings and everything. Never got anything sent to me but at least it was
> something like a net control, haha.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
>
> Phil.
> Living His Name
> WWW.SafePlaceFellowship.COM
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