[NLRS] northern lights radio society or contest society

Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:41:15 -0600

Mark,

For many years now we have discourage the practice of rag chewing on 144.200
to keep it open as a DX calling frequency.  Often times you will find local
(< 150 mi ) people in QSO's on 144.225,250,275.  Check those out. Then on
Sunday evenings you will find nets on 6m, 2m, and 70cm sponsored by the
NLRS.  Please check www.nlrs.org for the schedules.  There is activity
outside of contests in the NLRS sphere of influence and there are people out
there, it's just not plugged up like HF.  Sometimes you catch me calling on
.200 from my car but you will need a lot of antenna as I am vertical with 5
whopping watts!

As for Friday or Saturday night,  a lot of VHF'ers are younger, have a life,
and do other things with our wives and family at that time.

Hope to see you on the air!

Cheers!

S. Earl Jarosh (ex. Steve?)
N0HZ  (ex. KA0VYB) No Hertz, No Gain
612-868-1313
[email protected]
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www.moneycenters.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Brown" <[email protected]>
To: "Nlrs" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:28 PM
Subject: [NLRS] northern lights radio society or contest society

> After several hours of activity on 144.200 my guess is you all turn the
> radios off unless it is a contest weekend. No activity = dead band and we
> lose it. I got tired of the hf contest make the QSO mentality no matter
what
> attitude and dropped out for a while, but to have no active stations on a
> Friday night is bad. Use it or lose it. And you wonder why I quit
> contesting, you don't keep the bands active. No activity is going to kill
> it, I know everyone is busy with work, myself included but make some
noise,
> get on a Fri. or Sat night and rag chew, there is more to life than
> contests.
> Mark
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