[Elecraft] Elecraft Net: Date & Time, Place? NCS Volunteers?

Thu May 15 20:02:00 2003

No, the propagation has kicked me off 20 meters and 30 meters in the last month.  My daily sked with OK City has moved to 40 meters at night.  We were working 
regularly on 14050 kHz for months during the morning (for me on the West coast) hours.  We could just barely hear each other on 30 meters so tried 40 meters.  After 
about 0100 Zulu things work pretty well and gets better for the next hour.  Unfortunately it is time for bed for the people in the Central states. The local nets on 80 
and 40 meters have a hard time during the middle of the day.    I think 17 meters is a pipe dream for quite a while. 
   Kevin.   KD5ONS

5/15/2003 2:57:41 PM, Michael E Dobson <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>On Wed, 14 May 2003 19:18:01 +0100 David Pratt <[email protected]>
>writes:
>> In a recent message, [email protected] said....
>> >> It looks like there is support for 2000z on Sunday.
>> 
>> >What happened to 18.132?  Don't get me wrong.  20m is nice but, 
>> lets make
>> >use of a WARC band and at the same time, get AWAY from the QRM!
>> 
>> I'll second that.  17m is a nice quiet band and it could be a matter 
>> of 
>> "use it or lose it".
>> 
>> HPE CU @ 2000z on Sunday on 16.132MHz.
>> 
>>
>I presume you meant 18.132MHz :-)  Unfortunately, propagation has been
>horrid on 17M at that time of day for quite a while now.  There are two
>other nets on 17M around that time that I try to check in to but I have
>heard only the faintest signals at net time for the past month or so. 
>Unless things change, we would need a whole lot of relays across the
>country and may spend most of the time jsut trying to get folks checked
>in.  Listen on 18.165 or 18.147 at 1900Z on Sundays to see what I mean. 
>Hopefully it is better in other locations than here in Maryland.
>
>Mike WA3KYY