[FARC] DX NET

[Bob Moroney]

The "Family Hour DX Net" site ( http://www.w7pho.com/ ) looks to have 
some pretty useful information on it, both for DX-oriented folks and for 
a more general audience. 

Two links on the site that I'd recommend for anyone are the "RFI" link 
and the "Operating Practices" link.  

I'd vote for the "Operating Practices" link to be required reading for 
everyone who uses the Ham bands.  It's a good primer and refresher on 
Ham Radio operating "best practices", imo. 

Also, whether it's meant to be or not, reading through "Operating 
Practices" could be an intro to English usage by non-native speakers, 
which you're bound to encounter if you do much chatting or ragchewing in 
HF SSB, or nowadays, Echolink.  It's not necessarily "bad" English, it's 
just not "American" English, so it may take some getting used to.  Kind 
of like what I go through talking with someone from Alabama or 
Mississippi or elsewhere down that way, y'knowi'msayin'?  Or maybe from 
Maine or Mass. (can't ever remember how to spell that).  Or maybe ... 

And I can only guess at what those good folks go through, trying to 
understand me.  ;-)

Thanks for pointing out the net, Kirk.  I for one had never heard of it.

73, Bob K9CMR
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Kirk Talbott wrote:
> Most of the club's HF users may be aware of this already, but in case some 
> aren't I found an interesting DX net on 20 meters.
>
> A net control station (In my case W4KRT Fred on 14.245 MHz. in St. Augustine 
> Fla.) lines up a group of DX stations in Europe then calls for check-ins in 
> the USA to talk to the European stations. The net is called the W7PHO Bill 
> Bennett Family Hour DX Net, and it operates Monday thru Friday 1400 GMT. 
> The net has been in continuous operation 46 years so most of you probably 
> already know about it.  The net has a web page, www.w7pho.net/index.html, 
> however I was unable to pull it up.
>
> I could only communicate with net control due to poor propagation and 
> limited equipment. But if propagation soon improves on 20 meters then I'll 
> be able to participate as well.
>
> As the only new ham in the club I think the DX "broker" or net control 
> method for contacting DX stations seems like a neat idea since it avoids 
> pileups and would give any check-in at least a fighting chance of being able 
> to talk to a DX station.  I don't want to step on anyone's toes, but the 
> standard method of trying to "out-holler" the mob in order to talk to a 
> particular DX station for a few seconds seems ridiculous to me.
>
> KB3ONM
> (Kirk) 
>
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