[v7arcssbnet] 2m CW on Monday

[Steve Schaarschmidt]

By the Way,
This ARES SSB net is on 144.220 MHz (20 kHz up from the calling frequency
on which we meet on Saturday nights).
The running gag, anytime I check in, is that N6VTS asks what I'm testing -
'cuz that's usually why I check into this net!
Again, John calls the net at 7:00 PM. It only lasts ten or fifteen minutes.
He doesn't always hold a CW net afterwards.
John also announces that following at 8:00 PM on the same 144.220 MHz USB
is the Rocky Mountain VHF-Plus Net.


On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 7:01 PM Steve Schaarschmidt <shakeastick at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sidebanders,
>
> You might be interested in this...
>
> I checked into the Monday-evening 7:00 PM Colorado ARES 2-meter SSB Net on
> 3/30/2020 with John N6VTS as NCS as usual.
> The "Cheap Yagi" is on a temporary mast by the front porch and is pointed
> at Pikes Peak, the Kenwood TS-700A has been on the dining room table for a
> week or two, and these days I'm using an instrument mic' on that handheld
> microphone grip with a big pushbutton ignition switch from O-Reilly Auto
> Parts.
> This was one of the times that John convened a CW net a couple of minutes
> after closing the sideband net.
>
> Well, even though I am in possession of the Speedex key that Doug 'TP lent
> to me a month or three ago, I couldn't find it quickly enough to plug it
> in... but when I switched the '700 to CW, I found that the PTT switch
> toggles to transmit AND keys the carrier... it was basically full break-in
> at six words per minute!
>
>  = Steve K0CI
>
>
>