[HCARC] Mondat Night HCARC Net 27 Nov 17

[Brown Stokes]

Maybe it's time to fall back on old reliable (Morse), and start setting up
a CW network, if we don't already have one.  I sold all my CW equipment
many years ago, and would like to start up, again. If anyone has some
simple (meaning inexpensive) gear they could part with, I'd be interested.

Brown Stokes
KG5TKT




On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 8:17 AM, John Canfield <bucket at janeandjohn.org>
wrote:

> 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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