Pond Scum, orginally titled: Inconsiderate of Others

Amateur radio operators come in all sizes and a few idiots can expected from bad manners in pile ups to deliberate interference and all but broadcasting. This was going to be my happy little unread echo chamber but I hope someone notices this. This morning I was reading the mail on 14.300( Home of the Intercon, Maritime and Pacific Seafarers nets) and heard a HH/W**** trying to set up a sked and pass traffic regarding needs for sterile materials for the relief effort in Hati. During this effort there was more than one station engaging in deliberate interference-not tuning up stupid but QRMing with an audio osc., yelling and the imitation of flatulence. The establishment of nets is unpopular to some and the ones on this frequency get a bit of vitriol-not entirely undeserved perhaps-no one owns a frequency. Be that as it may be, refusing to yield a frequency to a net is at worst bad manners but deliberate interference to emergency communications is as wrong as slashing the tires on an ambulance, and both are done by the equally mean and stupid. 73 Rob