[HCARC] Abandoning 10 meter rag chew?

Gary and Arlene Johnson qltfnish at omniglobal.net
Sat Sep 1 22:10:58 EDT 2012


I hate to rain on this parade, but has anyone done a study/poll of the techs 
in the club that don't have access to a spouse who is a General or above and 
has access to the HF bands above 10 meters that way, or if no spouse, has 
access to a radio that will transmit on 10 meters SSB??  I suspect this 
number is very small.  IF a Tech were going to go out and procure a radio 
that could transmit on HF SSB, and erect an antenna to do likewise, isn't it 
reasonable to also think that the same Tech would be in the process of 
upgrading to General so that he/she had full use of all the bands in HF to 
utilize this "new" radio on??  I realize that there are some Techs who have 
been coming down to the Club Station and getting on the air with Gale. 
However, those Techs are not restricted to 10 meters if Gale is present as 
they can use him as the Control Operator and can go anywhere on HF.  I know 
what a great service Gale provides, I have taken advantage of this service 
myself.\

If I were a Tech looking at this whole exercise from a "Should I bother to 
upgrade point of view", I could logically conclude it's not worth my time 
and effort, since the HF band test results to date won't even let me talk to 
my friends locally.

What we should be concentrating on, in my never quite humble enough opinion 
is finding out which Frequencies we can reliably communicate locally using 
HF and getting good at doing that vs trying to restrict ourselves to any one 
set of Frequencies.  Who knows, there might be a day when we need to use HF 
to communicate locally.

If I have stepped on any toes, I apologise in advance.

Gary J
N5"BAA"



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charley & Peggy Robinson" <ccrobins at ktc.com>
To: <hcarc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 3:03 PM
Subject: [HCARC] Abandoning 10 meter rag chew?


> All,
>
> I've been enthusiastic about the 10 meter rag chew idea because I liked
> Gale's idea of getting  the tech class operators involved in working on
> HF.  I was enthusiastic enough to erect a 10 meter dipole in several
> configurations and I'm still moving it around in an effort to get out
> better to the the Harper & F'burg area.   I missed out last Wednesday
> evening (my bad) after the last redeployment.  Thinking about putting it
> on the roof temporarily next.
>
> Now, once again, there's a movement to abandon the 10 meter band because
> of "propagation difficulties."   I submit that the "difficulties" could
> very well be because of inadequate antennae - mine included.   I plan to
> work on better antenna deployment instead of abandoning the original
> idea of trying to motivate the techs to get on HF.
>
> 73,
>
> Charley
> af5ao
>
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