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

[N5OK]

Okay, we have a frequency.  Now all I have to do is put my 2 meter beam
back up and find my 2 meter rig.  ;-)

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:12 AM Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> I recall a similar set up in the mile High DX Club in Denver. I think
> the problem we face is that we're pretty well scattered over a large
> area. Simplex is wonderful stuff, but the OKDXA members are typically
> too far aport for many of us to hear more than one or tow other members.
> but I certainly agree that it would be nice to do. Jeff suggested that
> we all monitor 147.54 -- I have been and even dropped my call in there a
> few times, but I've never heard anyone there.
>
> 73,
>
> Kim N5OP
>
> On 7/28/2019 4:03 PM, Robert Redmon wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > Sent from Bob???s iMac
> >
> >> 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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> >> Coy C Day, N5OK
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> Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP
> SEL/MEL/Glider, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)
>
> /"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in
> practice, there is." //??? Attributed to many people; it???s so true that
> it
> doesn???t matter who said it./
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