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
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