[HCARC] Mondat Night HCARC Net 27 Nov 17

[John Canfield]

I completely agree Kerry! After about two minutes of listening to the 
net waiting to check in, I decided it wasn't going to be a net so I 
bailed out.

Unfortunately my only 2M antenna is an omni vertical about 20' in the 
air and being in the NW quadrant of the county will limit my ability to 
communicate with everybody else, but there could be relay stations to 
pick up those antenna deprived stations like me. Planning on a tower at 
some point though.

John
WB5THT

On 11/28/2017 7:25 AM, Kerry Sandstrom wrote:
>
> Last nights net was a disaster due to problems with the repeater. 
> We've talked about having a net that doesn't use the repeater.  I 
> think its time to really look into this now.  We could , in the 
> absence of repeater problems set aside one week a month to run a net 
> without the repeater.  In addition, whenever the repeater is not 
> working properly we could fall back to the net without a repeater.  
> Yes, there will be some who won't be able to check-in. Perhaps this 
> net will encourage them to upgrade their station so they can 
> check-in.  The simplest approach would be to run a net on 146.98 
> simplex.  That way, if the repeater is having a problem, it is just 
> turned off and we all use .98 simplex for the net.  That way people 
> will hear activity on the normal net frequency whether the repeater is 
> in use or not.
>
> Bottom line - we've had enough problems with the repeater that it is 
> past time to figure out how we can have a net without the repeater.  
> You can't terminate a disaster because the repeater is not working 
> properly!
>
> Kerry, K5KS
>
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