[GreenKeys] Hoffnet update

[Roy Norris]

Hi Steve,
Glad to hear you have a model 28 up and running !  that's great !  

I too, was active on autostart back in those days.  The group I
frequented was one set up by Irv Hoff, W6FFC on twenty meters.  It was
around 14.085 as I remember.  With our being on the downside of the
sunspot cycle, that would probably not work so well today.  Plus with
all the RTTY DX chasing on 20 meters today, it would make establishing
an autostart frequency there  a difficult task.

We tried to get the HoffNet going on the 10 Mhz band four or five months
ago.  But many GreenKey folks did not have an antenna for that frequency
or did not have a receiver that would receive on that new amateur band.

The next best band for cross country communications is 40 meters.  I am
sure there were autostart nets on 40,  years ago but I don't know what
the frequencies were.

Their were a lot of autostart nets on 80 meters but they were primarily
local nets (West Coast, Midwest, East Coast) and 80 meters would not
support cross country communications without lots of power and good
antennas and even then it was chancy.

So 40 Meters would seem to be our best shot where everyone, coast to
coast could participate.  40 meters is open most of the day and night
now.  The big problem is the foreign broadcast stations which reek havoc
at night but perhaps we could find a narrow channel that was
interference free.

I hope we can get something going.

Best regards -- Roy Norris, K4EEG

-----Original Message-----
From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of steve brant
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:10 PM
To: Roy Norris
Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net; 'Don and Diana Cunningham'
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Hoffnet update

Yes, when I was very active on HF and VHF tty, we used autostart all the

time. It was really
pretty cool! Geez, that was 30 years ago...

Lived in Michigan at the time, just across the pond from Chicago. There
was a guy  in Chicago that setup an autostart Weather transmitter on 2
Meter
fm.  He would receive live feeds from National Weather and send them out

real time
via the autostart channel on 2 meters.  I used to copy them all them
time
over in Michigan.  I had setup a dedicated receiver and antenna just to
get
the weather bulletins. It was really pretty neat.

I don't remember what the HF autostart frequencies were , but
if we could find them out, why not see if we can use them again??

I have just finished rebuilding my model 28 and it is copying just
fine..
when the bands are working..lately not so good here in Little Rock.

Steve K8VII
NNNN


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