[AMRadio] Saturdays on 7.160

[ARS W5OMR]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2023, 12:57 Donald Chester <k4kyv at hotmail.com> wrote:


> I worked Darrell (this past Saturday I think), after the  rest of the
> group had signed.  We had a nice long QSO and Darrell was strapping in the
> whole time.  I  rarely try to  join the group since there are usually
> several stations I can't hear well or not at all.
>


 Most are running in the 100w class (or less) and Darrell is still either
on with the KW-1, or the Johnson 500.  I dont think he gets on with less,
although he has built some beautiful xmtrs (807 level) and rx's.


> I don't know what group claims 7285, but the 7290 (No-)Traffic Net seems
> to be active all day long.  I hear them open and close out the net several
> times throughout the day, but whenever it closes, I come back to  the
> frequency shortly thereafter, and inevitably it has started back up again;
> never figured out what their scheduled hours are  supposed to be.


Mon - Sat from 10am to noon
Mon - Friday 1pm till 2pm, Central time.
No net on Sundays.

7.285 is the Texas Traffic net.
They meet Mon - Sat from 8:30am toll 9:30am, and again on 3.873 from 6:30pm
till 7:30pm.
 Now, an independent net, Texas Traffic Net was part of the ARRL NTS.


  They have been more accommodating to the AM activity on or near this
> frequency ever since the show-down with Ashtabula Bill W8VYZ (SK) several
> years ago when the FCC got involved.
>

That's about the time Bill was also in trouble with the FeeCee for
operating AM on the 10m novice subband.



> 7275 is regularly used by stations in the Northeast, but like 7160, when
> they are on the air I can usually copy one one or two of the stations.
>
> In any case, whenever  the top end of the band is occupied I nearly always
> hear plenty of vacant frequencies all the way down to 7200 and below. No
> reason why we  can't operate more there.
>

Seems there's someone on, that i can hear, every 5 or 10kc, and if they're
not on then, they'll come in on top of someone who is on "their" frequency
saying they've been there all along.  We all know that's a whole load of
horse hockey.

If a general class operator is insistent on operating the top end of 40m,
then 7.285 after 9:30 is open. The 7.290 net folks (who do, by the way,
pass 10 to 20 messages per day, sometimes more, sometimes less) usually
come down to 7.285 to pass that traffic, but if the frequency is in use,
they can go up to 7.295.

73
W5OMR


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