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Old 03-24-2008, 09:14 PM   #7
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Yep, there are definitely some crusty old guys on that have all day to be on the air and they hit several nets. They are on so often that they begin to feel that they own the frequency.

Common courtesy would be to tell the people on frequency that there is NORMALLY a net on this frequency and ask how much longer they would be in a QSO or if you could just make a brief call to a net member and tell him to move or or down a few KHz.

If you are not talking about much you can offer to move off frequency. The amateur frequencies do not belong to a specific group, so we should all try to work together.

I have had net fire up on a QSO with linears and they make a big deal out of the fact that the weak stations can't talk over them.

Ken
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