[HCARC] Mic Time on HF

[galeheise at windstream.net]

To All-

  I really enjoyed spending the time with John Brown, KA9LKB, and Gary Johnson, N5BAA, at the Club Station yesterday.  We ended up spending 2 1/2 hours discussing radios, tuners, SWR meters, logging programs, computer/rig interfacing and other ham radio topics.  John came for the purpose of getting mic time on HF and unfortunately, left empty handed.

  It occurred to me that it might be helpful, for new hams as well as hams interested in HF, to get on HF with an informal rag chewing Round Robin session one night during the week to provide them with some mic time and the ability to ask questions about equipment, antennas, operating, etc..  This might be a nice augment to the structured 2 meter nets on Monday and Skywarn on certain Thursdays.  Ideally, if local propagation were to permit it, we could meet on 10 meters for the benefit of Technician Class Licensees.  Antennas for 10 meters are pretty simple to construct and of reasonable size.  I understand some clubs have local 10 meter sessions because the bands are typically clear and interference won’t be a problem.  I’m just not sure if we’re located close enough to make it work.

  I suspect our first step is to pick a day, time and frequency on 10 meters to see what type of propagation we have.  Let me know if anyone is interested in running 10 meter propagation tests.

Gale
KM4DR