[MRCA] Moose & Squirrel in the Dark

[W2HX]

Ok, Gents… Listen out for me too. I’ve just been moving into my new shack above the garage and don’t have a single radio or antenna set up. But this call to action has made me snap into action. I ran to the storage unit to get a radio, ant coupler and coupler cable. Ran to home despot to get some wire. Ran home to throw some wire into the trees.  I just got some wire up as it became too dark to see what I was doing (about 10 minutes ago here in NY).  This antenna is very awful. But hopefully someone will hear me. I will run the coupler inside the shack. The wires connect to the coupler and head out of the window. The HV stand off on the coupler will head approximately east west sitting on top of my kitchen roof (10 feet above ground) and run about 70 feet. Then the case of the coupler will connect to another wire of about 70 feet running north south. I am toying with also connecting the case of the coupler to earth ground (what do you think?) the radio will be grounded to earth.

Net Control-  Please give ample opportunity (and/or frequent opportunity) for new check ins as folks take time to make adjustments as necessary

73 Eugene W2HX


From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Al Klase
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 11:26 AM
To: Christopher Bowne
Cc: mrca at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [MRCA] Moose & Squirrel in the Dark

Chris,

OK.  Let's give it a go tonight at 03:00Z (22:00 EDT)  I'll run the B&W 5100 so as to be half-way loud, and I'll use a receiver that I can put on SSB easily.

Let's post here in real time after we establish a freq.

Al
On 1/26/2014 10:50 AM, Christopher Bowne wrote:
That would work well for us that participate in the OMRN CW net at 2100 Eastern on Sunday nights, want to give it a go tonight Al?  Those who want can slide up the band from 3570, we usually wrap up around 2145 or so...I will keep the GRC19 running to act as an anchor station.  Not sure if anyone will be using the frequency then, but we can plan on looking up the band in 10 kc increments if 3705 is busy...


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From: Al Klase <ark at ar88.net><mailto:ark at ar88.net>
To: mrca at mailman.qth.net<mailto:mrca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [MRCA] Moose & Squirrel in the Dark

Rob,

(Geez, I really like these charts.)  This one for this AM:  You can see clearly that the 75-meter band is already "going long" by 5 AM (10 UTC), and gets worse by 6AM.
We need to do QRP when there's a big yellow spot over us. indicating that NVIS is viable.

Who's up for trying 3705 at about 10 PM EST?  We should have a loud station or two to keep a hole open.

Al

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See;  http://www.ips.gov.au/HF_Systems/6/6/2

On 1/26/2014 5:45 AM, Rob Flory wrote:
Hi All,
75 meters at night and low-powered AM sets seem a mutually exclusive situation.  The wider the band is open, the more QRM there is.

On the Saturday morning net, I usually had to wait until the sun was up and the band shortened quite a bit before getting in with TBX.

RF
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