[OKDXA] Mean't to bring up at the meeting yesterday

[Robert Redmon]

Yes, Coy. 

Starting in the Mid 70s, when I was living in Bartlesville, Gary Gomph, Ken Adams, Ed Gilliland, Larry Watson, and a handful of others (me included) staked out a 2 meter simplex frequency and used it to alert the others to dx heard, spot for each other during pileups, conduct propagation experiments, etc. Admittedly, there was some friendly competition amongst us, but there was also a lot of mutual support and encouragement. No schedules or such….We just left the 2 meter rig on all the time and made some noise when we were in the shack.  

That went on for at least a decade and outlasted the local packet cluster that we operated concurrently. At some point in there, I remember you started up a repeater down in the Tulsa area and much of the activity switch over to that. To be honest, though, the local simplex nest was much more fun and ultimately more of a factor in the way the local dxers bonded and approached the hobby. All the guys I mentioned, unfortunately, are now silent keys…all but me, very sad. 

73, Bob K5SM

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> On Jul 28, 2019, at 2:18 PM, N5OK <coyday62 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Bob,
> 
> You are talking about 2 meter dx alert nets, right?  I think they went away
> when we had the local packed clusters.  Now we have international packed
> clusters.  However, that's not like local nets, where we could report what
> WE are hearing right now.  That is much like what Jeff is doing by posting
> them on the reflector.  The problem is that I don't monitor the internet
> all the time.  Not for e-mail that is.
> 
> I like the idea but I would have to dig out my old 2 meter rig.  ;-)
> 
> Coy
> 
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 11:36 AM Robert Redmon <k5sm.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Anybody besides yours truly still thinking of the recently thread
>> discussing regional vhf fm DXing groups around the state? It is still
>> bouncing around in my head. Like many other old timers, I have some very
>> fond memories of that sort of thing from my 30 years in NE Oklahoma. (I am
>> not so far away down here in N. Texas)
>> 
>> Bob K5SM
>> 
>> Sent from Bob’s iMac
>> 
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