[Elecraft] RE: ELECRAFT NET - Sounds like HFPACK

[Bruce Thompson]

Hi Wayne,

Picking frequencies has been a really hot topic in the past.  If you
look at the "on the air schedules" page on the hfpack website, it lists
frequences for most of the bands, including 20 and 40.  One of the
interesting debates concerns where do the cw people go?  What has been
done so far is to use the SSB freq as the starting point for cw.  I've
had QSOs with other bicycles where I was running SSB and the other
station was running CW.  We've taken some grief about running CW in the
SSB band segements though. Also, those with K1's have pointed out they
are unable to tune into the SSB portion.  I personally think that a
frequency in the CW portion of the band makes more sense.  Just to screw
things up more on 40m, the different Regions have different allocations.
(Hopefully that is being fixed!)

I think it will take some time and a lot of debate (one that I DON'T
want to be involve in! :-), but we need to pick a place and a time where
everyone can meet.  I think we can follow what the HFPACK guys have
learned the hard way and pick times and frequencies and stick to the
schedule.  If people show up, are others to talk to, and they have fun,
the word gets out pretty quickly.  Others start to show up and it
becomes established practice. 

73,

Bruce KG0SH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Burdick [mailto:n6kr@elecraft.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:03 AM
> To: brucet@santechconsulting.com
> Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: ELECRAFT NET - Sounds like HFPACK
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> Bruce Thompson wrote:
> 
> > What you guys are suggesting is exactly what they do on HFPACK.
> 
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out, Bruce. In fact I occasionally
> monitor HF Pack, and it is great fun to hear so many 
> peripatetic QRPers.
> 
> 40 m and/or 20 m 'watering holes' of this type would also be
> great to have. They do need to be within reach of K1 as well 
> as K2 users.
> 
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
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