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

Mon Jul 29 10:46:34 EDT 2019

Working on it! Mine is all collecting dust, too. 

Bob

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> On Jul 29, 2019, at 7:34 AM, N5OK <coyday62 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> 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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