Wanna do some 10 meter HF? Join us tonight on the 10-10 net at 8pm on
28.488. The net is not just for 10-10 members, but if you want to become
one, we can help.
10-10 History
Seldom does the story of an organization's founding outlive the memory of
those who founded it. The members who come after search diligently among the
mitten and potsherds of notes and fragmentary minutes for their beginnings,
often in vain.
So is it rapidly becoming with the 10-10 International Net. To those who
could have recorded it, the work of founding and organizing was only their
day to day activities- the thoughts and impulses of which motivated their
acts were normal, familiar processes which needed no recording.
So we grope for much of the story of our beginning. This much is certain:
that when the list of founders was set up the name of Irv Hunter, K6PWO, of
Glendora, CA stands pre-eminent. The 10-10 International Net is the
projection of his thoughts; the 10-10 spirit is the reflection of his
enthusiasm; the growth of 10-10 is the fruition of his labors.
Around this man with his idea, there gathered a group who saw hope for ten
meter activity with this innovation..and so it was born, but the nursing
period was still ahead. To put a date on our history, we must go back to a
spring day in March of 1962.
Ten meters had been roaring during the fifties. Then came the sixties and
with it a bad case of the doldrums. Lack of good propagation, and the
resulting lack of interest, caused many amateurs to abandon ten meters for
greener pastures. This mass exodus from the band was cause for concern on
the part of a lot of ten meter enthusiasts, for fear that this lack of
activity might cause the FCC to consider reassigning this portion of the
radio frequency spectrum to some other service. Sometime in 1961, Irv
Hunter, K6PWO, started talking about forming an amateur radio organization
to promote activity and everyday use of the ten meter band. In March of 1962
word got around that a meeting would take place at the San Dimas Canyon
Park, near Irv's home in Glendora, for the purpose of forming such an
organization. A picnic lunch was held on a Saturday and several hams from
that local area attended..and thus the seed was planted.
It was decided by this small group of stalwarts that the net would meet
every day of the week except Sunday at "10:00 am local time.or 1800 UTC.
(Aha, 'see you on Ten at Ten'..a natural')". So the name quickly became
"10-10 Net". The frequency of 28.800 MHz was chosen as the primary daytime
net frequency.
Certificates were ordered for members and the caption read Ten-Ten Net of
Southern California. Although "10-10" appears on the latest corporation
papers, no one seems to know just where the often used "10- X" originated.
The original certificate included crossed flags at the top, USA and
California, and with the exception of the crossed flags, caption and later
the world map, the certificate has remained essentially the same for all
these years.
As with most organizations, we experienced our share of growing pains.
Originally the 10-10 Net was organized for the purpose of activating ten
meters. The By-laws and preamble stated that we were a "traffic net". The
10-10 net was far from satisfying the ARRL standards for a traffic net, so a
major decision was made by the officers and members. We became more of a
social net with the prime purpose of maintaining activity on the 10 meter
band.
Each sun spot cycle brought both high level activity and low level activity
depending upon the period of each cycle. During the good part of each cycle,
10-10 continued to grow and soon became International. "Southern California~
was dropped from the name and the official name became The 10-10
International Net, Inc. and was incorporated in the State of California.
...from information provided by Jim Michaels (SK), W6PGM #10
Hope to see you tonight! If you have a directional antenna, turn it towards
Richmond. I have a pretty high beam, so I can hear all of Houston and most
of the surrounding area.
73/161,
Allen R. Brier N5XZ
1515 Windloch Lane
Richmond, TX 77406 USA
713-705-4801
[email protected]
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