Emergency net on 3885?

[WB2EMS]

With all the reports of great activity yesterday, I got home from my meeting tonight and tuned around looking for everyone. Not a carrier from one end of the phone band to the other. However while spinning through the band in LSB mode, the better to hear carriers, I ended up back on 3885 and heard an AB9xx calling some sort of emergency preparedness net. It was around 9 pm. Didn't stick around to see what developed.

Wondering if this is yet another ruse to cause problems on the AM calling frequency, or Maybe a new 'dead air' net? Anyone else hear it? Anyone heard it before? It was around 9 pm.

[AF9J]

Hi Kevin, I was busy dealing with some computer problems, so I wasn't on all of the time tonight, but I did take a listen or two every now and then.  I didn't hear any net on 3885, when I was listening there.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[ve6pg]

...kevin..come on down to the quietness...3680-3735...call cq, and see what happens....tim..sk...

[WB2EMS]

Tim, I'll definitely give that a try, although I tend more to listen and then join a small group than to call CQ, but I've done both.

I was just wondering if someone was putting a move on 3885 while everyone was playing down low.

[wa2dtw]

I'm more concerned about the music that I heard a couple of nites ago on 3885.
73
Steve WA2DTW

[WD8BIL]

You call that MUSIC

[wa2dtw]

I am assuming it was from a jammer.

[WD8BIL]

So... what was the emergency ?

[KA1ZGC]

I'm more concerned about the music that I heard a couple of nites ago on 3885.

Don't be.

I am assuming it was from a jammer.

It wasn't. It was just someone getting carried away. It may be against the regs, but it was nothing malicious. Since it wasn't aimed at you, it's nothing you need to worry about.

[k4kyv]

So... what was the emergency ?

Some stupid AM'er had the gall to transmit on a *dead-air group's frequency.

*dead-air group [dɛd ɛər grup] noun

1. a group of slopbucketeers that squats on a frequency, but can think of nothing intelligent or even unintelligent to say, so they simply monitor the frequency, interrupting the silence with an occasional grunt every half-hour or so.  But the entire group quickly jumps on the frequency and all hell breaks loose if someone outside the group happens to transmit on or near their self-assigned private frequency.

2. see brain-dead.

[N3DRB The Derb]

Don, that goes in my sig. 

[AF9J]

Yeah,

That IS cool, and a VERY accurate definition. 

73,
Ellen - AF9J
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