[OKDXA] Mean't to bring up at the meeting yesterday
D C _Mac_ Macdonald
k2gkk at hotmail.com
Mon Jul 29 09:40:50 EDT 2019
Well, Coy, if you can't find YOUR 2m rig, I have several for sale that I have replaced for newer models! HAR!
73 de Mac, K2GKK/5
Since 30 Nov 1953
Oklahoma City, OK
USAF, Retired ('61-'81)
FAA, Retired ('94-'10)
Cell: 405-642-7337
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From: okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of N5OK <coyday62 at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2019 07:34
To: Oklahoma DX Association <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] Mean't to bring up at the meeting yesterday
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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> >> 20685 SW 29
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