On Thursday 20 September 2007 18:02:43 Tony Langdon wrote:
At 05:57 AM 9/21/2007, John Marranca, Jr wrote:
happening during the Mode K Russian sat days. Quite honestly, I think it's rude and selfish that any person would not follow a gentleman's agreement
Sometimes it's simple ignorance, and a bit of education can go a long way when this happens (and you might get a new satellite operator if you do it right :) ).
bandplan. (Reminds me of a local guy about 15 years ago that would talk to his buddies on 144.000 FM.)
Well that one is not only ignorant, it's illegal, as half of his signal is outside the band...
And that 144.0 - 144.1 is cw only in the USA. I'd bet that this person didn't understand both the technical and social aspects of the rules and bandplans.
--STeve Andre'