[Elecraft] RE: FISTS

[Steven Pituch]

Hi Mark,
It best to join FISTS and get a membership number.  The number is good for
life even if you subscribe for only a year.  This way you can CQ with anyone
nearby on frequency.  14.058 and 14.060 are only guidelines.  Activity can
be plus or minus due to propagation, RFI, ongoing QSOs, etc.  At his QTH he
may hear something on 14.058 that you can't hear, so its an unusuable
frequency for him.  FISTS is really a nice group of people.  Remember that
during the QRP foxhunts we try to take up from 7.030 all the way up to
7.050, so we don't stick to our one gentleman's agreement frequancy either.
;0)

If you want to get Worked All States with your Rockmites, having a FIST
number can be really beneficial.

Regards,
Steve, W2MY

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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 5:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] k2 offset frequency, and FISTS

Thanks for the info on FISTS.  So, this prompts another question.  Since
14.060 is the QRP frequency and (before I had my K2) while operating
rockbound at 14.060 I heard many folks instead of calling CQ and signing QRP
they were looking for other FISTS.  Why do they use 14.060 instead of their
published 14.058?  I generally don't answer them if they are specifically
calling for FISTS, but do they answer calls otherwise as well?  I'm sure
there are many QRP/FISTS members here as well that may be able to clear this
up for me.

Mark, NK8Q
K2 4786
RockMite-40 & -20

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