[Scan-DC] On air scanner net for SCAN-DC

[Greg Danes]

Between Zello on a regular basis and Zoom monthly I think we will have
everything covered. I had a good conversation between Andy Clegg, David
Bolton (146.700) repeater owner in Leesburg, VA and myself today. While
many of us perhaps do not do as much transmitting as listening, it's good
to know that the 146.700 machine (PL 77.0) might get more use folks outside
Frederick MD, Leesburg and Charleston, WV.

Andy has a 200 ft. height advantage living in the highest building in
Arlington but I guess others can equally hit this repeater here while
mobile.  From a purely SCAN-DC perspective if we start using Zello on a
regular basis we can keep in touch during any emergency in the DMV as well
as get together to discuss all this stuff on Zoom also from time to time.

Greg-KJ4DGE

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 1:35 PM David Cohen <cohenner at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a free non-profit Zello account that I can use. I can put this
> group in a separate zone.
>
> We can also use it to alert for breaking news, etc.
>
> Let me know if anyone is interested.
>
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 18:07 Lee Williams <leonzo at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I will second this suggestion 👍🏿
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > On Mar 28, 2021, at 09:55, Greg Danes <danesgswolf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I agree, perhaps a regular Zoom meeting once a month like our last get
>> > together, I counted around 15 folks on that via zoom. Also learned a few
>> > things as well, I didn't know. Newbies could ask the experts, perhaps
>> find
>> > what is "hot" as far as area traffic is concerned since we all have
>> > different niches....
>> >
>> > GSD
>> >
>> > Greg
>> >
>> >> On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 9:33 AM Michael Agner <ka3jjz at comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Some of you  may remember that I ran a scanner/SWL net for almost a
>> >> decade on the BRATS 147.03 repeater.  Sadly the explosion of the Net
>> >> pretty much killed it.
>> >>
>> >> I would suggest a social platform such as Zoom, Skype, etc.  That way
>> >> non-hams can join in, not just listen. That does seem the way to go,
>> >> particularly with the COVID restrictions that are still
>> >>
>> >> in place. We didn't have that when I did the net.  Having a net on HF
>> is
>> >> very much dependent on how old Sol is doing.  Anyone remember the
>> SWLNet
>> >> on 7Mhz Sunday mornings?
>> >>
>> >> As a reminder, there's the Scanner Guys show on YouTube on Wednesdays
>> at
>> >> 8pm EDT.  It's usually announced on the RadioReference website.
>> >>
>> >> Mike
>> >>
>> >>
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