Ed Said: "Did the participation drop because of bad /poor propagation?  Lots of
times I tried the MRCG net etc but the paths were not there to my
place in the desert." 

Hi Ed - Clatternet:  Well it seems we don't quite have a "critical mass" out here to keep this going routinely as the East Coast guys now do.  It ebbs and flows out here.  We don't have much of a RATT Pack out west... We are also otherwise more spread out than the East Coast troops.

We routinely had 1-2 guys in the San Diego area plus the PAC NW guys check in but mostly when we were operating on 10,137 kc and had good props over those distances.  The PAC NW guys started Clatternet in the early 1980's (Dave Ross et.al.) but at one point they had to QSY to 3587 kc to get local comms among themselves locally.  That didn't work this far away during daytime so participation dropped off around here.

I will probably be back up on RATT this summer from campsites using my portable gear.  Fun (and handy if I need to T/R Winlink EMail from the boonies!..)  Eg:  https://www.n6cc.com/mil-commo-ftx-field-day-2023/

BTW, Dan has gotten the USS Iowa up on RATT as time/people are available.  How about a cross country BB-BB RATT contact with the USS New Jersey using installed USN Mil gear!

Anyway, My $ 0.02
Tim
N6CC

On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 12:02 PM Ed Zeranski <edzeranski@cox.net> wrote:

>
> ...Sorry you aren’t getting much participation in the west coast
> Clatternet these days. it was the inspiration for getting the east
> coast RATT net on the air. We have also attracted several stations
> running non-military modern gear but interested in some RTTY other
> than a “599 QRZ” contest.
>
> Did the participation drop because of bad /poor propagation?  Lots of
> times I tried the MRCG net etc but the pathes were not there to my
> place in the desert.


EdZ KG6UTS

San Diego DM12jr

Borrego Springs DM13tf



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