[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (w) 3 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 4 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 5 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 5 check ins this week (including the NCS). There were a few staunch souls that managed to get through the horrendous lightning static that was blanketing the Midwest. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:21 PM ET. Sorry for the abbreviated version of the net. Hopefully things will be much quieter next Sunday evening. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE OHK4D Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTd101dx/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 4 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury IIIBill (w) 5 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500Cary (w) 6 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 7 AK4TF GAFlex 6400/KPA500 Tony (w) 8 KG9NG WIKX2/KXPA100 Sam(w) 9 W9EJH INK4D/KPA500Earl (w) 10 W8KEN OHK4/KPA1500Ken(w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 10 check ins this week (including the NCS). Very nice hearing from everyone tonight, in spite of the fact that the NCS was not audible to most of the net, since I was running 100W into a vertical from my RV in Ohio. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:36 PM ET. Sorry for the abbreviated version of the net. I'll be operating from home with 500W next Sunday. Conditions were poor this evening, as the band was recovering from a solar flare that occurred earlier today. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE OHK4D Dave 2 AK4TF GAFlex 6400/KPA500 Tony (w) 3 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 4 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (rel),(w) 5 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (rel),(w) 6 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-PowerBrian (w) 7 K1ND MIK4/KPA500 Jan (w) 8 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 9 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w),(c/o) 10 WW4JF TNK3S/KPA500John (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 10 check ins this week (including the NCS). Very nice hearing from everyone tonight, in spite of the fact that the NCS was not audible to most of the net, since I was running 100W into a vertical from my RV in Ohio. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:26 PM ET. Sorry for the abbreviated version of the net. Conditions were poor this evening, as the band was recovering from a massive CME earlier in the weekend, and a solar flare that occurred earlier today. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MI K4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ IL FTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (w) 3 WM6PGA K4D/KPA1500Steve (rel),(w) 4 W9PCS WI K4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 5 K8NUOH K4D/KPA1500Carl (w) 6 KN3C/0 IA TS-488X/ALS500MRick (p),(w) 7 K1NWRI K4D/KPA500 Brian (rel),(w) 8 K5PDTX K4 Pete (n/h),(w) 9 W4CBS FL K4/Mercury III Don (w) 10 K1DIH CT K4D/Tokyo Hi-Power Brian (w) 11 N2RBP NY IC-7100Matt (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 11 check ins this week (including the NCS). Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:44 PM ET. Conditions were good this evening, as the band had recovered from a CME earlier in the weekend. Prior to the net an M-class flare struck, but flares effect the daytime side of the planet, and generally the D-layer adsorption effects fade after a couple of hours. So the West Coast and the Asia-Pacific area were effected, but not the East Coast of the US. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 N2TNN VAK3Dean (w) 3 WB9JNZ ILFTd101dx/KPA1500 Eric (w) 4 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (w) 5 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 6 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-PowerBrian (w) 7 K1ND MIK4/KPA500 Jan (w) 8 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 9 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 10 KD9RRS WIIC-7300/KPA500Mark (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 10 check ins this week (including the NCS). Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:30 PM ET. Conditions were very good this evening, as the band had recovered from several C-class flares earlier in the day. During the net an M-class flare struck, but flares effect the daytime side of the planet, and generally the D-layer adsorption effects fade after a couple of hours. So the West Coast and the Asia-Pacific area were effected, but not the East Coast of the US. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTdx1010d/KPA1500 Eric (w) 3 AK4TF GAFlex 6400/KPA500 Tony (w) 4 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (rel),(w) 5 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 6 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 7 K5WC ARK4D/Mercury Lux John (c/o),(w) 8 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-PowerBrian (w) 9 N2TNN VAK3Dean (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 9 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to the relay stations that helped this evening. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:26 PM ET. Conditions were noisy this evening for some stations, with lightning in the NE and GA off-shore area. The summer season is coming on. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 3 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 4 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (w),(rel) 5 NK9R GAK3/KPA1500Harry (w) 6 K3CAQ OHKX3/KXPA100 Andy (w) 7 K1DIH CTK4D Brian (w) 8 N2TNN VAK4Dean (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 8 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to the relay stations that helped this evening. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:24 PM ET. Conditions were noisy this evening, with lightning in the PA area. The summer season is coming on. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE OHK4D Dave (p),(w),(op) 2 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (rel),(w) 3 K1NW RIK4D/KPA1500 Brian (rel),(w) 4 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo HiPower Brian (w) 5 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 6 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 7 W4NDK NCFTdx10Nate (n/h),(w) 8 AK4TF GAFlex-6400/KPA500 Tony (w) 9 WY3T FLK3s/KPA500Tim (w) 10 K2LED NYKx3 15W TS-890/KPA500 Bob (w) 11 K1ND MIK4/KPA500 Jan (w) 12 KD2EPJ NJKx3/KXPA100 Lou (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round. (n/h) failed to respond during subsequent rounds.) We had a total of 12 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to the relay stations that helped this evening. The NCS was running portable from the Dayton KOA campground running 100W. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:46 PM ET. Conditions were noisy this evening, with lightning in the Midwest. The summer season is coming on. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 3 K3CAQ OHKX3/KXPA100 Andy (w) 4 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury IIIBill (w) 5 N2TNN VAK3Dean (w) 6 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (rel),(w) 7 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 8 W4MJE ARKX3/KXPA100 Jim (c/o),(w) 9 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo HiPower Brian (w) 10 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 11 KD4IZ MDIC-7610/KPA500Jack (w) 12 WB9JNZ ILFTdx-101d/KPA1500 Eric (w) 13 NY9H PAK4D/RFKit Bill (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round, or failed to respond during subsequent rounds) We had a total of 13 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to Eric, WB9JNZ and Steve, WM6P, as relay stations. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:33 PM ET. Conditions were noisy this evening, with an S5-S7 noise floor at my QTH, and lightning in northern Illinois to add to the mix. The summer season is coming on. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 3 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 4 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 5 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500Cary (c/o),(w) 6 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (w) 7 N0MPM IAK3s Mike (w) 8 KK9H ILK3/KPA1500Don (c/o),(w) 9 K2LED NYTS-890/KPA500 Bob (w) 10 K1DIH CTK4D/TokyoHiPower Brian (w) 11 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (c/o),(w) 12 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500John (c/o),(w) 13 KD9RRS WIIC-7300/KPA500Mark (c/o),(w) 14 WB4HUC TXK4/KPA500 Mike (c/o),(w) 15 WA0TXJ MNK4D/KPA500Keith (w) 16 N2TNN VAK3Dean (c/o),(w) 17 WA4RYW ALK4D/KPA1500 Gill (c/o),(w) 18 W4NDK NCFTdx10Nate (c/o),(w) 19 WB8VAF OHTS-570D Frank (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round) We had a total of 19 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to Eric, WB9JNZ, this week that did yeoman's duty to pull in signals that I couldn't hear clearly or couldn't hear me due to antenna problems at my QTH. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:57 PM ET. Conditions were noisy this evening, with an S7 noise floor at my QTH, and signals were weaker than usual with some QSB, due to recovery from a recent G4 geomagnetic storm and K index = 8. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage everyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTDX101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 4 K8NUOHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 5 K1NWRIK4D/KPA500Brian (w) 6 WN9AINK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 7 KD2WCY NJK2/KXPA100Kevin (w) 8 WM6PGAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 9 N3GOD MDIC-725/ALS500 Doug (w) 10 K1DIH CTK4D/TokyoHiPower Brian (w) 11 KK5LD TXK3/HB500W Dan (c/o),(w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round) We had a total of 11 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to all the relays this week that helped to pull in signals that I couldn't hear clearly. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:44 PM ET. Conditions were noisy this evening, with an S7 noise floor at my QTH, and signals were weaker than usual with some QSB. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTd101dx/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500Cary (w) 4 KK9H ILK3Don (c/o),(w) 5 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (c/o),(w) 6 KC9NRO INFTdx10Greg (w) 7 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (w) 8 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo HiPower1.5k Brian (w) 9 K5WC ARK4D/Mercury Lux John (c/o),(w) 10 N2TNN VAK3Dean (w) 11 WW4JF TNK3S/KPA500John (w) 12 WA2EIN VAOrion II/Titan IIIPete (c/o),(w) 13 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w) 14 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 15 N6JW CAK3/KPA500 John (c/o),(w) 16 AC6JA CAK3Mike (w) 17 N7EKF UTKX3/KPA500Ken (w) 18 KD2WCY NJK2/KXPA100Kevin (w) (Entries with (c/o) indicate a 'one and done' station that checked out during the 1st round) We had a total of 18 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to all the relays this week that helped to pull in signals that I couldn't hear clearly. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 09:50 PM ET. I'd like to call out N6JW, John, from California for checking in via Eric's, WB9JNZ, relay, and also bringing two additional new check ins to the net from CA and UT. Hello to Mike, AC6JA, and Ken, N8EKF. John, K5WC, reported hearing all three stations in AR. We had a quiet night, with virtually no lightning in the North America region, and a K index of 0, with very low D Layer absorption. Essentially ideal conditions to hear stations from the West Coast, in spite of the fact that it was still daylight there. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 3 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (rel),(w) 4 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 5 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500 Cary (w) 6 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 7 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 8 AB1FF MAK4D/KPA1500 Tom (w) 9 KC1LKO NHAnan7000/RF2KS Miguel (w) 10 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 11 VP2MDX DXK4D/KPA500 Thaire (w) 12 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo1.5kfx Brian (w) 13 NY9H PAK4/RFKit Bill (w) 14 WW4JF TNK3S/KPA500 John (rel),(w) 15 WD4AMC GATS-890/AL-1306 Bill (w) 16 KA0RTM MNTS-590SG/KPA1500 Mike (w) 17 WA1NSE MAK4D Jerry (w) We had a total of 17 check ins this week (including the NCS). Thanks to all the relays this week that helped to pull in signals that I couldn't hear clearly. Also I was having antenna issues, and had to run barefoot (100W) so the relays were again very helpful to allow some stations to hear me. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 10:00 PM ET. I'd like to call out VP2MDX, Thaire, from Montserrat, as quite possibly our first DX check in to the 80M Elecraft SSB Net. I hope to hear more far-flung stations check in, if possible. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 AA3WA PAK4/Mercury III Nick (w) 3 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 4 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 5 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 6 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 7 N8WL OHK4 Steve (w) 8 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (w) 9 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury IIIs Bill (w) 10 K2LED NYTS-890/KPA500Bob (w) 11 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 12 N0MPM IAK3s/KPA500 Mike (w) 13 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500 Cary (w) 14 K1DIH CTK4D Brian (w) We had a total of 14 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals were all equal to or stronger than 59 to this station, with a noise floor of S6, so all readable. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:39 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFT101dx/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 4 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 5 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel),(w) 6 N9QDS ILIC-7300 Keith (w) 7 K3CAQ OHKX3/KXPA100 Andy (w) 8 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury III Bill (w) 9 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 10 K7RJS WAK3/KPA500Adrian (w) 11 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (rel),(w) 12 N8GNA MIIC-7300 Tom (w) 13 W4NDK NCFTdx10 Nate (w) 14 WY3T FLK3s/KPA500 Tim (w) 15 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 John (w) 16 K1DIH CTK4D Brian (w) 17 K5WC ARK4D/Mercury Lux John (w) 18 KJ4UBM NCKX3 Randy (w) 19 KG9NG WIKX2/KXPA100 Sam (w) 20 KD8DZ OHK3/KPA500Mike (w) 21 K2ZA NJKX3/KXPA100 John (w) We had a total of 21 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals came in stronger after the initial check ins. Thanks to the relay stations for the assists this evening. Very nice hearing from everyone tonight, especially from Adrian, K7RJS in Washington state! I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 10:01 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpNameSent RST 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d Eric (w) 59+20dB 3 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500Brian (w) 58 4 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500Paul (w),(rel) 59+10dB 5 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 6 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 59+5dB 7 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 59+20dB 8 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-Power 1.5kfx Brian (w) 58 We had a total of 8 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals came in strong after the initial check ins, then faded a bit during the 73 round. Thanks to the relay stations for the assists this evening. Very nice hearing from everyone, in spite of the competing Superbowl broadcast. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:23 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. We are continuing to use 3803 kHz and Brian, K1NW reported that 3803 kHz was still free of the noise he had been experiencing on 3806 kHz. We'll try 3803 kHz again next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3803 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTDX101D Eric (rel),(w) 3 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 4 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 5 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 6 W8RNG OHIC-7300 Tim (w) 7 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (w) 8 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 9 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 10 K0AWU MNK3s/Ameritron AI-811 Bill (w) 11 W4NDK NCFTDX10 Nate (w) 12 K3CAQ OHKX3/KXPA100 Andy (w) 13 KC9NRO INFTDX10 Greg (w) 14 K2RIG NJK4/Mecury IIIBill (w) 15 W9YK ILIC-7610/AmeritronTodd (w) 16 AE1P NHK3s/Alpha 76 Neil (w) We had a total of 16 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals came in strong after the initial check ins, then faded a bit during the 73 round. Thanks to the relay stations for the assists this evening. Very nice hearing from the new check ins. I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:42 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. We decided to find an alternate frequency this evening, so we tried 3803 kHz. Brian, K1NW, and Neil, AE1P, reported that 3803 kHz was free of the noise they had been experiencing on 3806 kHz. There were a couple of reports from further south that there was another QSO going on, but most of the net was not hearing them. We'll keep a close eye on that, and try 3803 kHz again next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday), although we met on 3824 kHz this evening (see discussion below). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (rel),(w) 3 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 4 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (rel),(w) 5 W4NDK NCFTdx10 Nate (w) 6 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (w) 7 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 8 KD9YVJ ILFT710Ross (w) 9 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury III Bill (w) 10 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-Power Brian (w) 11 WX0MIK MNFT991/Collins 30L-1 Mike (w) 12 KC3TIU PAG90/G125 Bob (w) We had a total of 12 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals came in strong after the initial check ins, then faded a bit during the 73 round. Thanks to the relay stations for the assists this evening. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and in particular from KD9YVJ who was using the gutters on his house for his antenna and the first check in from WX0MIK using a Collins 30L-1 amplifier! I hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:42 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. Also, a couple of stations have complained of a 'roaring' noise (like a foreign broadcast jamming station) on our planned frequency of 3806 kHz, so I decided to find an alternate frequency this evening, which is how we ended up on 3824 kHz. Brian, K1NW, reported that 3803 kHz was free of the noise, and that the folks that meet there just prior to 9pm ET have been closing their net promptly at 9pm, so I propose we try 3803 kHz next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time and look for the 80M Elecraft SSB Net, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY again due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 KF4BY SCK4D/Alpha 374Stan (w) 3 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (rel),(w) 4 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (rel),(w) 5 K5WC ARK4D/Mercury Lux John (rel),(w) 6 KC9NRO INFT-891 Greg (w) 7 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 8 W0ALA INK3s/KPA500 Tony (w) 9 KA8UGB MIOmni VII/Hercules II Tony (w) 10 N1DIH CTK4/Tokyo Hi-PowerBrian (w) 11 WA4PIM TNJupiter Bart (w) 12 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 John (rel),(w) We had a total of 12 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals varied quite a lot this evening, with some QSB. Thanks to the numerous relay stations for the assists this evening. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:48 PM ET. A shout out to the folks that checked in with classic TenTec equipment (a first in my memory of being NCS of this net), and in particular, Bart, in Murfreesboro, TN, my old stomping ground. I got my Novice license there when I was in high school in 1970. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. We also experimented with the Utah SDR#1, and were able to hear a number of us on the SDR. Later, other stations in the western half of the US covered us up on the SDR, although we couldn't hear them direct here in the Midwest. Also, a couple of stations complained of a 'roaring' noise (like an open mic) on the frequency, which we decided was likely foreign broadcast (or jamming of a foreign broadcast - take your pick). If this persists, we may yet have to go looking for another frequency. I couldn't hear it at my QTH in Ann Arbor, MI, due to a persistent S7 noise floor, here. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz (we met on 3803 kHz this evening), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 K5WC ARAnan G2/Mercury Lux John (rel),(w) 3 K4TM VAK4/KPA1500 CARY (w) 4 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 5 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury IIIs Bill (w) 6 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (w) 7 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi 1.5Kfx Brian (w) 8 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (rel),(w) 9 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 STEVE (w) 10 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500Eric (w) 11 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 12 N0MPM IAK3s/KPA500 Mike (w) 13 W4NDK NCFTdx10 Nate (w) 14 KJ4KKB GAK3 T Q EDWIN (w) 15 K8JK FLK4D?JIM (w) 16 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) 17 WD8CYV WVAlinco Dave (w) We had a total of 17 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals were mostly good all around. Thanks to John, K5WC, and Paul, W9PCS, for the relay assists this evening. 80M was in good condition, with some QSB. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:58 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (rel),(w) 3 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500Eric (rel),(w) 4 K6VWE MIK4D/KPA1500 Stan (w) 5 KF4BY SCK4D/Alpha 374A Stan (rel),(w) 6 K5WC ARK4D/Mercury Lux John (w) 7 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 8 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 9 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 10 W8LVN ILK3s Bill (w) 11 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury IIIs BIll (w) 12 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo 1.5KfxBrian (w) 13 N0MPM IAK3s/KPA500 Mike (w) 14 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) We had a total of 14 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals were good all around. Thanks to Paul, W9PCS, Eric, WB9JNZ, and Stan, KF4BY for the relay assists this evening. 80M was in good condition, with some QSB. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:41 PM ET. We have a really great group of folks checking in, and I encourage anyone in the Midwest and adjoining areas to try to check in next week. As a reminder, if you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time, you should see the frequency we are using that evening, if we must QSY due to busy frequencies. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz (We met on 3803 kHz this evening), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 3 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 4 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500Eric (rel),(w) 5 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (w) 6 AC3CT PAFT-991A Tim (w) 7 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 8 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 9 K5WC ARK4D/Mercury John (w) 10 KE8TRL MIIC-7300 Blaine (w) 11 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 12 K1DIH CTK4D/Tokyo Hi-Power Brian (w) 13 K2RIG NJK4/Mercury III Bill (w) 14 KF4BY SCK3/Alpha 74AStan (w) 15 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 E F PJOHN (w) 16 K5WA TXK4D/Alpha 2000A Bob (w) We had a total of 16 check ins this week (including the NCS). Signals were good all around. Thanks to Eric, WB9JNZ for the relay assist this evening. 80M was in good condition. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:39 PM ET. In spite of the recent frequency change, the turnout continues to be very encouraging. We ended up on 3803 kHz tonight at Carl's K8NU suggestion/observation that 3803 cleared up just before 9pm ET last week, and it appeared to do so again this week. We did hear another weak (to us) conversation that started to get stronger later in the net, so if 80M continues to improve we may not be able to hold 3803, either. Time will tell. I'll continue to monitor adjacent frequencies to see if we can find another one close by that will work better for everyone. In the meantime we will continue to attempt to meet on 3806 kHz. If you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time, you should see the frequency we are using that evening. Looking ahead, we will NOT meet on Christmas Eve or New Year's eve, so this was the last 80M Elecraft SSB Net of this year. Happy Holidays and see you next year! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz (We met on 3828 kHz due to lots of activity this evening on all frequencies up to there), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFT101D/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 STEVE (w) 4 K1DIH CTK4D/TokyoHiPowerBrian (w) 5 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 6 W2APF NHK4D/KPA1500 Thaire (w) 7 KA0RTM MNTS-590SG/KPA1500MIKE (rel),(w) 8 KF5LNM ARK3s Albert (w) 9 KD9RRS WIIC-7300/KPA500 Mark (w) 10 N5ZM ARK4D/KPA1500 Earl (w) 11 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) We had a total of 11 check ins this week (including the NCS). Most signals were good all around, except the barefoot station, KF5LNM. Thanks to KA0RTM for the relay to pull that station into the net. For the most part, 80M was in good condition overall. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:46 PM ET. In spite of the recent frequency change, the turnout continues to be very encouraging. We ended up on 3828 kHz tonight because there were solid QSO's all the way from the bottom of the General band at 3800 kHz up to where we met at 3828 kHz. I've also noted that sometime after the net started that 3809 kHz became clear. I continue to monitor adjacent frequencies to see if we can find another one close by that will work better for everyone. In the meantime we will continue to attempt to meet on 3806 kHz. If you go to https://netlogger.org at the net starting time, you should see the frequency we are using that evening. Looking ahead, we will NOT meet on Christmas Eve or New Year's eve, so we will have one more net before the end of this year. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz (We met on 3810 kHz due to another couple of nets on 3803 and 3807), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500Eric (rel),(w) 3 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 4 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 5 WS8B OHIC-7610 FRANK (w) 6 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 7 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (w) 8 K1DIH CTK4D/HL1.5 XKX Brian (w) 9 KC1LKO NHK4D/RF2KS Miguel (w) 10 K5WC ARK4D/Mercury Lux John (w) 11 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) 12 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 13 KE8REH OHXiegu x6100/XPA125p Bob (w) 14 W8WIL WVIC-7100/ALS-600 Gene (w) 15 WO9E INIC-7300 Darren (w) 16 KF4EJS KYTS-590 CHRIS (w) 17 KC1SBH MEFT-891 Taylor (w) 18 KD9YVJ ILIC-761A Ross (w) 19 KB3DOR NCFTDX10 Rob (w) 20 VA2FH QCK4D/SPE500W Gilbert (w) 21 K1ND MIK4/KPA500 Jan (rel),(w) 22 KG5S ARK4D/KPA1500 Drew (w) We had a total of 22 check ins this week (including the NCS). Most signals were good all around, except some of the barefoot stations. For the most part, 80M was in good condition overall. Many thanks to the relay stations for pulling those stations in and making them part of the net. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:44 PM ET. In spite of the recent frequency change, the turnout continues to be very encouraging. We ended up on 3810 kHz tonight because there was another net on 3807 kHz. I asked if 3810 kHz was clear about 850pm, and a station came back and said that there was a group that met there starting at 10pm. I said that we would clear off before 10pm and we did secure the net at 944pm. I did listen to the follow-on net for a while, and there was considerable discussion about letting a net use 'their' frequency, and one station was complaining that he couldn't police their frequency all the time to make sure that it would be free when the group wanted to use it. Seems this group shows up sometime after dinner time and talks sometimes until 6am! They also noted that a Flex net came on earlier on 3810 kHz, and were told by some other station that the frequency was 'in use', so they moved down to 3807 kHz (which of course, caused us to move somewhere else). I've also noted that sometime after the net started that 3803 kHz became clear. I continue to monitor adjacent frequencies to see if we can find another one close by that will work better for everyone. In the meantime we will continue to attempt to meet on 3806 kHz. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 KD8DZ OHK4/KPA500Mike (rel),(w) 3 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 4 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (w) 5 K2HN PAK3s Jim (w) 6 N8WL OHK4 STEVEN (w) 7 K1DIH CTK4D/1.5K Brian (w) 8 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 9 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 MSTEVE (w) 10 KD9RRS WIIC-7300/KPA500 Mark (w) 11 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) 12 KJ4KKB GAK4D/KPA500 EDWIN (w) We had a total of 12 check ins this week (including the NCS). Most signals were good all around, except a couple of barefoot stations. For the most part, 80M was in fair condition overall. Many thanks to the relay stations for pulling those stations in and making them part of the net. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:39 PM ET. In spite of the recent frequency change, the turnout continues to be encouraging. Brian, K1NW, was dealing with some loud noise on frequency that he was able to help control by setting his manual notch to 330 Hz and using NR on his K4D. It was also noted that sometime after the pre-net started that 3803 kHz became clear. I continue to monitor adjacent frequencies to see if we can find another one close by that will work better for everyone. In the meantime we will continue to meet on 3806 kHz. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz (we moved up to 3807 kHz this evening, due to nearby ARRL Sweepstakes activity) 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 3 WN9A INK4D Larry (w) 4 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 5 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 MSTEVE (rel),(w) 6 WB9JNZ ILFT101dx/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 7 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) 8 W0ALA INK3s/KPA500 TONY (w) 9 N8DZR MIK4D Jeff (w) 10 W4KBX FLK3s/KPA500 Richard (w) 11 KE8TRL MIIC-7300 Blaine (w) We had a total of 11 check ins this week (including the NCS), which was quite good considering the ARRL Sweepstakes was in the last hour and all around us. Most signals were good all around, except a few barefoot stations and ones that were either too close or too far from the net control station. For the most part, 80M was in pretty good condition overall. Many thanks to the relay stations for pulling those stations in and making them part of the net. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:22 PM ET. In spite of the recent frequency change, the turnout continues to be encouraging. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
Ed, Yes, you are correct with your estimates of typical range on 80M. It does get better in the winter, where lightning noise which can propagate many hundreds of miles on 80M at night all but disappears. Yes, a 2nd West Coast net would be nice. I haven't heard anyone step up yet to host such a net. Frankly, I ended up with this gig, because the previous net control went MIA (I think he got a job overseas), and I guess I just took over the reigns. I don't have a monster contest-style station by any stretch of the imagination, and if someone else with a better station situation wanted to give it a try, I certainly wouldn't stand in their way. Having said that, I can say I appreciate the opportunity to serve in some capacity, and it has given me good experience as a net control of an informal net, and I'm sure others would enjoy the experience. Maybe you'd like to start an AK-local 80M Elecraft SSB Net, to capture those in your area that are using/running or are interested in working Elecraft stations on the air? 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2023-11-13 11:45, Ed Cole wrote: Often read the reports from Elecraft Nets and kind of wondered what the "usual" maximum range for stations on the 80m SSB Net? I'm in southcentral AK so do not expect to ever hear the net which appears centered on MI (I was K8MWA 1958-1968 in MI). Late night 80m prop often brings in West Coast stations (W7 and W6) so that would suggest a couple thousand miles. Normal daytime 80m is about 400 miles up here. Also seems as a West Coast 80m net could co-exist with the current Elecraft 80m SSB Net. Be nice if NC were located in NW (Seattle?) as that might reach us 1300 miles to the north. I have checked in the 20m SSB Net in the past with 100w and 3-element yagi at 50-foot. Building a 1200w linear this winter (might improve chances??). I mostly do VHF-SSB or EME but with the great cycle-25 might enjoy what it brings in! 73, Ed - KL7UW https://www.kl7uw.com/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n8...@densbe.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz (we moved up to 3808 kHz this evening, due to another conversation on 3805 kHz) 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 K2HN PAK3s Jim (w) 3 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 4 K1NW RIK4D/KPA500 Brian (rel),(w) 5 W0ALA INK3s/KPA500 TONY (w) 6 WA8JXM OHK3 Ken (rel),(w) 7 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 8 KF4BY SCK3/Alpha 374AStan (w) 9 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 10 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) 11 KD9RRS WIIC-7300/KPA500 Mark (w) 12 KD2WCY NJK2/KXPA100 KEVIN (w) 13 AB8PS MIK3/KPA500PAT (w) 14 N4ZEK SCFTdx10/KPA500SCOTT (w) 15 KA8MAA MIKX3 Dan (w) We had a total of 15 check ins this week (including the NCS). Most signals were good all around, except those that were running barefoot. My S& to S8 noise floor on 80M here makes it all but impossible to hear those stations. Many thanks to the relay stations for pulling those stations in and making them part of the net. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:51 PM ET. In spite of the recent frequency change, the turnout was very encouraging. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3806 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILK3/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 N9QDS ILIC-7300 Keith (w) 4 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 STEVE (w) 5 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 6 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 7 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 CARL (w) 8 W1DXH MAK4D/Alpha77DXSteve (w) 9 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) 10 WN9A INK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 11 KB9R WIK4D/KPA1500 Joe (w) 12 KA8MAA MIKX3 15W Dan (w) 13 KD8DZ OHK4D/KPA500 Mike (w) 14 K2HN PAK3s Jim (w) 15 W0ALA INK3s/KPA500 TONY (w) We had a total of 15 check ins this week (including the NCS). Most signals were good all around, except KA8MAA, who was running his KX3 barefoot at 15W. Thanks to Eric, WB9JNZ, for the relays! Very nice hearing from the new check ins and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 9:50 PM ET. We went through a frequency change this week, and the turnout was very encouraging. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILK3/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 N9QDS ILIC-7300 Keith (w) 4 K4TAX TNK3s Bob (w) 5 K9LZJ INK4/xpert Hank (w) 6 KA8MAA MIKX3 15W Dan (w) 7 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 8 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 9 KB9R WIK4D/KPA1500 Joe (w) 10 KD9RRS WIIC-7300/KPA500 Mark (w) 11 K1ND MIK4/KPA500Jan (w) 12 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 13 WF0M COK4D/KPA1500 Mike (rel),(w) 14 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 15 K8SWD MIFTDX10/KPA500Rudy (w) 16 WC4X GAK4D/KPA1500 Ned (w) 17 K3ARC TNK4D/KPA1500 Ray (w) 18 AA7KQ IDKenwood TS-830 Gary (w) 19 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 John (w) 20 NT9F INK3/L-4B Kelly (w) We had a total of 20 check ins this week (including the NCS), which I think is an all-time record for this net (at least since I've been NCS)! Most signals were good all around, except a couple of stations that were below the net control station's noise floor of S7 (sorry, city lot). Thanks to the relay stations (rel) that helped bring those stations into the net. Very nice hearing from the new check ins and in particular, Mike in CO and Gary in ID courtesy of multiple relays, and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 10:02 PM ET. Note that we will be going through a time change next week - the net will continue to meet at the same local time, 9PM ET, and we will try for a frequency in the General portion of the band, so more folks will be able to participate. "Watch this space." I'll make an announcement via the usual net announcement that goes out Sunday afternoon. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILK3/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 VA2FH QCK4D Gilbert (w) 4 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 5 W4CBS FLK4/Mercury III Don (w) 6 K4TAX TNK3s Bob (w) 7 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 MSTEVE (rel),(w) 8 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 9 K8SWD MIFTdx10/KPA500Rudy (w) 10 NY9H PAIC-7800 Bill (w) 11 KB9R WIK4D/KPA1500 Joe (w) 12 AE1P NHK3s/Alpha 76 NEIL (w) 13 KD9RRS WIIC-7300 Mark (w) 14 N4ZEK SCFTdx10/KPA500Scott (w) 15 N2JAF OHTS-590 Cal (w) 16 W8CZN OHK3 Jim (w) We had a total of 16 check ins this week (including the NCS), and most signals were good all around, except a couple of stations that were below the net control station's noise floor of S7 (sorry, city lot). Thanks to the relay stations (rel) that helped bring those stations into the net. Very nice hearing from everyone, and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 944 PM ET. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIKX2/KXPA100 Dave (log),(w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTd101dx/KPA1500 Eric (nc),(w) 3 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 4 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 STEVE (w) 5 W5SS OKIC-746 Bob (w) 6 KD8DZ OHK4D/KPA500 Mike (w),(rel) 7 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w),(rel) 8 KB9R WIK4D/KPA1500 Joe (w),(rel) 9 KF4BY SCK3/P3/Alpha 374A Stan (w) We had a total of 9 check ins this week (including the NCS - THANKS to Eric, WB9JNZ for handling the net tonight!), and signals were good all around, except most stations had issues copying N8SBE, who was operating portable from his RV this weekend running 100W into an Eagle One vertical mounted on the RV ladder. Thanks to the relay stations (rel) that helped bring N8SBE into the net. Very nice hearing from everyone, and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 948 PM ET. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFT101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 KK5LD TXK3 Dan (w) 4 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 5 KD9RRS WIic7300/KPA500Mark (w) 6 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 7 KB9R WIK4D/KPA1500 Joe (w) 8 NY9H PAK4/RFkit2k Bill (w) 9 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) 10 K7EK KYKX3 15W GARY (w) 11 W8WY OHK4D/SBE1.5K Jim (w) 12 K1VG CTK4D/KPA500 Jeff (w) 13 KD2WCY NJK2 100W KEVIN (w) 14 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (rel),(w) 15 WS4P SCK4D/KPA1500 Al (w) 16 K1ND MIK4/KPA500Jan (rel),(w) 17 N1CGP MEK3s/KPA500 Dan (w) 18 N8WNG MIKX3 15W Rob (w) 19 VA3PSI ONFT710Doug (w) 20 N8JS MIK4D/KPA500 Jerry (w) We had a total of 20 check ins this week (including the NCS), and signals were good all around, except I had difficulty copying some of the close in and QRP stations. Thanks to the relay stations (rel) that helped bring those stations into the net. Very nice hearing from everyone, and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 958 PM ET. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 K8NUOHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (rel),(w) 3 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 4 WM6PGAK4D/KPA1500 STEVE (w) 5 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 6 W8LVN ILK3s Bill (rel),(w) 7 K3ICH VAK4D/KPA1500 Charley (w) 8 WN9AINK4D/KPA1500 Larry (w) 9 W1DXH MAK4D/Alpha 9500 Steve (w) 10 N4DE NCK4D/KPA500 Dave (w) 11 W8WY OHK4D/SBE1.5K Jim (rel),(w) 12 KC9NRO INKX2/KXPA100? Greg (w) 13 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) 14 VA1RST NSK3s Roger (w) 15 W8SX OHK2 Bob (w) We had a total of 15 check ins this week (including the NCS), and signals were good all around, except I had difficulty copying KC9NRO, VA1RST, and W8SX. Thanks to the relay stations (rel) that helped bring those stations into the net. Greg indicated he was running 100W, but we never copied the amplifier he was using. Thus, the KXPA100? designation. Very nice hearing from everyone, and hope to see all of you again. The net concluded at 950 PM ET. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WO4KTNK3/KPA500Bud (w) 3 KD8DZ OHK4D/KPA500 Mike (w) 4 N4DENCK4D/KPA500 Dave (w) 5 WM6PGAK4D/KPA1500 STEVE (w) 6 AD8FK MIIC-7300 Leonard (w) 7 K8NUOHK4D Carl (w) 8 W9PCS WIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 9 WW4JF TNK3s JOHN (w) 10 VA1RST NSK3s Roger (w) We had a total of 10 check ins this week (including the NCS), and signals were good all around, except I had difficulty copying WO4K. Very nice hearing from the first time check ins, and hope to see you again. The net concluded at 928 PM ET. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILK3/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 K8NU OHK4D Carl (w) 4 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 STEVE (w) 5 KN3C PAK4D/KPA1500 Rick (w) 6 KD8DZ OHK4D/KPA500 Mike (w) 7 KB9R WIK4D/KPA1500 Joe (w) 8 W2APF NHK4D/KPA1500 Thaire (w) 9 WO4K TNK3s/KPA500 Bud (w) 10 W8LVN ILK3s Bill (w) 11 W1DXH MAK4D/Alpha 9500 Steve (w) 12 K1ND MIK2 #136 10W Jan (w) 13 K2LED NYKX3 15W ROBERT (w) We had a total of 13 check ins this week (including the NCS), and signals were good all around, except I had difficulty copying WO4K (thanks for the relays!). Very nice hearing from Jan in Ypsilanti, MI with his classic K2 #136. The net concluded at 948 PM ET. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 W8KEN OHK4/KPA1500 Ken (w) 3 KN3C PAK4D/KPA1500 Rick (w) 4 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (w) 5 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 STEVE (w) 6 K4TAX TNK3s Bob (w) 7 K8NU OHK4D Carl (w) 8 W8LVN ILK3s Bill (w) 9 KD8DZ OHK4D/KPA500 Mike (w) 10 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) 11 N9QDS ILK4D Keith (w) 12 K2LED NYTS-890/KPA500Bob (w) 13 W4CBS FLK4/Mercury IIIs Don (w) We had a total of 13 check ins this week (including the NCS), and it was nice hearing from everyone. Noted again were the preponderance of K4 radios. Signals were good for the most part, and the net concluded at 937 PM ET. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 K1NWRIK4D/KPA500 Brian (w) 3 K8NUOHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 4 KB9AIT WIK4/KPA500 GARY (w) 5 K1NDMIK2/KPA500 Jan (w) 6 WB9JNZ ILK3/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 7 W8KEN OHK4D/KPA1500 Ken (w) 8 KB9RWIK4D/KPA1500 Joe (w) 9 AD8IO OHK4D/KPA1500 Mark (w) 10 AL7BA OHK4D/KPA1500 M JIM (w) 11 K8ZT OHK3 S/N 43 Anthony (w) 12 W8LVN ILK3s Bill (w) 13 KE8QFT OHYaesu FT-891FREDERICK (w) 14 W4CBS FLK4/Mercury IIIS Don (w) 15 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) We had a total of 15 check ins this week (including the NCS), and it was good hearing from everyone. Again noted were the preponderance of K4 radios, as well as a number of KPA1500 amplifiers, which are always welcome to battle the QRN on 80M. Signals were good for the most part and got better near the end of the net, which concluded at 954 PM ET. A shout out to Anthony, K8ZT. Be sure to look for W1AW/8 this week, and check out Anthony's presentations at https://www.k8zt.com/presentations Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 WB9JNZ IL K3s/KPA1500 Eric (w) 2 K8NUOH K4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 3 W2APF NH KX3/KXPA100 Thaire (w) 4 N8SBE MI K4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 5 K1NWRI K4D/KPA500 Brian (w),(rel) 6 W8LVN IL K3s Bill (w) 7 WW4JF TN K3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) 8 W2APF NH K4D/KPA1500 Thaire (recheck with different radio/amp) 9 W2NMI NJ K4D/Collins30L1 Paul (p),(w) 10 KB9R WI K4D/KPA1500 Joe (w) 11 K1VG CT K4D/KPA500 Jeff (w) 12 AB0R MN K4D/KPA500 Dave (w) 13 KD2ABK NY KX3/QRP Howard (w) We had a total of 12 check ins and one re-check this week (including the NCS), and it was nice hearing from everyone. Noted were the preponderance of K4 radios. They certainly seem to be taking over, now. Signals were OK to good for the most part and got better near the end of the net, which concluded at 945 PM ET. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MI K4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 N9QDS IL K4D/KPA500 Keith (w) 3 W8LVN IL K3s Bill (rel),(w) 4 WB9JNZIL FT101dx/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 5 AB0R MN K4D/KPA500 Dave (w) 6 W2NMI NJ K4D Paul (w) 7 KE3KQ PA K4D Ben (w) 8 K8NU OH K4D Carl (w) The band was the worse for wear this evening, following two C-class and one M-class flares in the previous 24 hours. We had a total of 8 check ins this week (including the NCS), and it was nice hearing from everyone. Signals were difficult for the most part and got better near the end of the net, which concluded at 928 PM ET. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (w) 3 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 STEVE (rel),(w) 4 W3SA NCK4D/KPA1500 John (w) 5 N9QDS ILK4D/KPA500 Keith (rel),(w) 6 W8LVN ILK3s Bill (w) 7 NY9H PAK4D/rfkit ampBill (rel),(w) 8 N4JRC NCK3/KPA500John (w) 9 W4CBS FLK4/Mercury IIIS Don (w) 10 AK1VTVTFTdx5000/KPA1500 DAVE (w) 11 WW4JFTNK3s/KPA500 JOHN (w) 12 VE3CYI ONTS-890 Stephen (w) The band was in almost decent condition this evening. We had a total of 12 check ins this week (including the NCS), and it was nice hearing from everyone, signals were OK for the most part and got better during the net, which concluded at 948 PM ET. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 K8NU OHK4D/KPA1500 Carl (w) 3 KC9ZASILTS-590/AL80B Tony (w) 4 K1ND MIK4/KPA500Jan (w),(rel) 5 N9QDS IL7300 Keith (w) 6 WW4JF TNK3S/KPA500 John (w) 7 KG8LB MICentral Electronics 200V Gary (w) The bands were in better condition this evening, in spite of a 1-2-3 punch of an M-class flare, followed by two C-class flares earlier in the day. We had a couple of new check ins this week, and it was particularly good to hear from Gary in Utica, MI on his early 60's Central Electronics 200V - sounding good, Gary! And it was nice hearing from everyone else, signals were OK for the most part with some QSB. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) The bands were in poor condition this evening, so not surprisingly, I logged no check ins. Hopefully band conditions will be much better next week. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
Jim, Yes, sorry about that. We used to meet in the General class portion of the band some time ago, but kept getting chased off of various frequencies due to the overcrowding with nets and skeds in that portion of the band. I'm open to anyone that can find us an open frequency in the General class portion of the 80M band at 9pm ET on Sundays. Since I'm already involved in attempting to run the net on 3784 kHz, it's difficult for me to be actively looking for openings elsewhere during the net time. Kind of a catch-22. Also, there is no one single source of registered nets, or else we might easily solve the problem that way. Yes, there is the ARRL Net Directory, but that leans towards NTS and similar nets. Netlogger, which we use for the 80M net, also shows other nets running at the same time, including their frequencies, but it is by no means all-inclusive, either. I'd really like to be as inclusive as possible, and that would mean meeting in the General portion of the band. Ideas, anyone? 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2023-06-19 11:26, Jim Good wrote: Dave, N8SBE, As a General Class operator, this net would be very interesting to attempt to join. Except that the stated frequency is below the lower limit for General Class operators. Thank you, James Good kd5vxh On 6/18/23 9:23 PM, Dave New, N8SBE wrote: 3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 WB9JNZILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (w),(rel) 2 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 3 W4CBS FLK4/KPA500Don (w) 4 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w),(rel) 5 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 John (w),(rel) 6 KD9RRSWIIC-7300/KPA500 Mark (w) 7 AE7JE MIK4/KPA1500 Michael (w) Nice to hear from everyone this evening. Some QSB, but the signals improved considerably as the hour proceeded. I initially had some severe noise at my end, but it mostly subsided after a while. Thanks to Eric, John, and Steve for operating as relay stations. Welcome to first time check-ins! Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to jamesg...@charter.net __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/AmpName 1 WB9JNZILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (w),(rel) 2 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 3 W4CBS FLK4/KPA500Don (w) 4 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w),(rel) 5 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 John (w),(rel) 6 KD9RRSWIIC-7300/KPA500 Mark (w) 7 AE7JE MIK4/KPA1500 Michael (w) Nice to hear from everyone this evening. Some QSB, but the signals improved considerably as the hour proceeded. I initially had some severe noise at my end, but it mostly subsided after a while. Thanks to Eric, John, and Steve for operating as relay stations. Welcome to first time check-ins! Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZILFTdx101d Eric (rel),(w) 3 W4CBS FLK4/KPA500 Don (w) Nice to hear from Eric and Don this evening. Lots of QSB, and the lightning QRM was considerable in the South and West half of the country, making it especially challenging. I was operating barefoot (100W) and portable (RV antenna). Thanks to Eric for operating as a relay station. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
Steve, Yes, it is always at 9PM ET. We go by local time instead of UTC, and always keep to 9PM ET daylight time or not. There a great many 'local' nets on 80M, so if we changed the time going to daylight time or back, we end up crashing into other nets on the same frequency. I would, however, entertain someone finding us a spot in the General class portion of the band, so more folks can participate. We ended up on the current frequency after have been chased off of a couple of other frequencies in the General class subband. Hope to hear you next Sunday evening, local time. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2023-06-07 12:01, Steven Stuckey wrote: Dave, Is this net always at 01:00 on Sunday evenings? I may to try to check in soon. 73 Steve AC9GK On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 10:05 PM Dave New, N8SBE wrote: 3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZILFTd101dx/KPA1500 Eric (w),(rel) 3 KX8XX MI7610 Mark (w) 4 AB0R MNK4Dave (w) 5 KG9NG WIKX2/KXPA100 Sam (w) Nice to hear from everyone this evening. Propagation decidedly got much better as the time approached 10pm ET. By the time Eric and I signed, he was S9+20dB to me and I was S9+10dB to him. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to ac9...@gmail.com -- Steven Stuckey - AC9GK - Ohio __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK4D/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZILFTd101dx/KPA1500 Eric (w),(rel) 3 KX8XX MI7610 Mark (w) 4 AB0R MNK4Dave (w) 5 KG9NG WIKX2/KXPA100 Sam (w) Nice to hear from everyone this evening. Propagation decidedly got much better as the time approached 10pm ET. By the time Eric and I signed, he was S9+20dB to me and I was S9+10dB to him. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 WB9JNZILYaesu FT101dx/KPA1500 Eric (w),(rel) 2 N4CBS FLK4/KPA500 Don (w),(rel) 3 N8SBE MIK3s/KPA500Dave (w),(op) Nice to hear from Eric and Don this holiday weekend evening. Perhaps we'll see more check ins next week. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 WB9JNZILYaesu FT101dx/KPA1500 Eric (w) 2 K1NW RIK4D Brian (w),(rel) 6 N8SBE MIK3s/KPA500Dave (w),(op) Wow! The lightning QRN was fierce this evening. Lightningmaps.org was lit up all over the Midwest, South and Southeast. I had S9+20db constant static level at my QTH in Ann Arbor, MI. Hopefully it will be better next week. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 WB9JNZILYaesu FT101dx/KPA1500 Eric (w),(rel) 2 AE6JV NHK3/expert 1.3kBill (w),(rel) 3 KE4WY KYK4D/KPA1500 Jim (w) 4 WY3T FLK3s/KPA500Tim (w) 5 KE3KQ PAK4D Ben (w) 6 N8SBE MIK3s/KPA500Dave (w),(op) Thanks to the relays, Eric WB9JNZ, and Bill AE6JV. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 NA4C TNK4Vollie (w) 2 WB9JNZILFT101d/KPA1500Eric (rel),(w) 3 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w) 4 WY3T FLK3s/KPA500Tim (w) 5 W4CBS FLK4/KPA500 Don (w) 6 AB0R MNK3Dave (w) 7 N8SBE MIK3s/KPA500Dave (w),(op) Thanks to the relay, Eric WB9JNZ. The Florida stations were getting hit with QRN from lightning in the Gulf. Otherwise, we had a good net, although we were still suffering from the aftermath of a G4 geomagnetic storm that hit several hours prior. Some stations were hearing aurora on the signals from other stations, something I'd not heard since I used to work a friend in TN that was due West of me by turning our beams north on 10M, and bouncing our signals off of the aurora, in 1970-1971. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 NA4C TNK4Vollie (w) 2 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (w),(rel) 3 KG9NGWIKX2/KXPA100 Sam (w) 4 KE3KQPAK4D Ben (w) 5 K2VJKNYK4D Vern (w) 6 WW4JFTNK3s/KPA500John (w) 7 WY3T FLK3s/KPA500Tim (w) 8 N8SBEMIK3s/KPA500Dave (w),(op) Thanks to the relay, Steve WM6P. At least the horrible lightning QRN of the previous evening during the Michigan QSO Party had subsided for this station, but Florida in particular was getting hit hard with lightning this evening. This will continue to be the pattern for the summer for 80M, I'm afraid. Some area of the country will likely be buried under static, so hopefully we can soldier on. Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK3s/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500John (w) 3 K8NU OHK4D/Mercury IIIs Carl (rel),(w) 4 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500 Steve (rel), (w) Thanks to the relays, Eric WB9JNZ and Carl K8NU. This station was suffering from what ultimately was operator error. I was on AM for some reason, and although the indicators on the K3s were properly showing it (LSB and AM-S were on), I somehow kept thinking the AM-S indication was for the VFO-B which I was not transmitting on. Like I said operator error, which I only figured out after reloading all the firmware, and I came within a hair's breath of resetting the radio to factory default, but somehow at that point it dawned on me what was going on, especially because all the other bands were operating 'normally'. Well, at least I know my radio and amp can do AM just fine, thank you. :-) My apologies to the net for all the foolishness, and hopefully all will be all right next week. Phew! Hope to see you next week! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3786 kHz (we moved up 2 kHz to avoid another ongoing QSO at 3783 kHz (sorry if we missed you due to the frequency change), 9PM ET Sunday (0100Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK3s/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 3 K8NU OHK4D/Mercury IIIs Carl (rel),(w) Rough conditions on 80M tonight with plenty of lightning QRN. Thanks to the relays, Eric WB9JNZ and Carl K8NU. We did see 3 other stations log into Netlogger, but they couldn't hear us, except Tim, WY3T in FL could hear Carl faintly over S9+15db QRN. Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MIK3s/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 2 W4CBS FLK4/KPA500 Don (w) 3 WB9JNZILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (rel),(w) 4 K8NU OHK4D Carl (rel),(w) 5 WY3T FLK3s/KPA500Tim (w) 6 NA4C TNK4/KPA500 Vollie (w) 7 K5PD TXK4/KPA500 Pete (w) 8 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500John (w) 9 KE3KQ PAK4Ben (w) OK conditions on 80M tonight, and my antenna was acting up again, so I operated barefoot 100W for most of the net. Thanks to the relays, Eric WB9JNZ and Carl K8NU. Congratulations to Carl on his new K4D! Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz (we moved to 3786 kHz this evening), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 KIND MIK4/KPA500 Jan (w) 2 WB9JNZILFTd101dx/KPA1500 Eric (w) 3 K8NU OHFTd101dx/Mercury IIIs Carl (rel),(w) 4 KE3KQ PAK4D Ben (w) 5 W4CBS FLK4Don (w) 6 NA4C TNK4Vollie (w) 7 KA0RTMMNTS-590/KPA1500Mike (w) 8 AF5LQ NCKX3/KXPA100 Carl (w) 9 W3SA NCK4D/ALS600John (w) 10 N8SBEMIK3s/KPA500Dave (ncs) So-so conditions on 80M tonight, along with some local noise in my area, made copy difficult for some stations. Thanks to the relays, we were able to pull in check-ins from FL, TN, PA, MN, and NC. Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
Oops, we did NOT QSY the net last night. Copy 'n paste error... On 2023-03-05 20:59, Dave New, N8SBE wrote: 3784 kHz (we moved to 3786 kHz this evening), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 WB9JNZILFTdx101d Eric (rel),(w) 2 W4CBS FLK4/KPA500 Don (w) 3 W4KBX FLK3s/KPA500Richard (w) 4 WY3T FLK3s/KPA500Tim (w) 5 KE3KQ PAK4D Ben (w) 6 N8SBE MIK3s/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 7 KB1NU MAK4D/KPA500John (w) 8 AE1E TXK4D Ken (w) Good conditions on 80M tonight, although there was some QSB and some QRN from lightning in the IA/IL area. My antenna behaved this evening, and we were able to pull in check-ins from FL, TX, PA, and MA. Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to n8...@densbe.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz (we moved to 3786 kHz this evening), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 WB9JNZILFTdx101d Eric (rel),(w) 2 W4CBS FLK4/KPA500 Don (w) 3 W4KBX FLK3s/KPA500Richard (w) 4 WY3T FLK3s/KPA500Tim (w) 5 KE3KQ PAK4D Ben (w) 6 N8SBE MIK3s/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 7 KB1NU MAK4D/KPA500John (w) 8 AE1E TXK4D Ken (w) Good conditions on 80M tonight, although there was some QSB and some QRN from lightning in the IA/IL area. My antenna behaved this evening, and we were able to pull in check-ins from FL, TX, PA, and MA. Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz (we moved to 3786 kHz this evening), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio Name 1 WB9JNZILFTdx101d Eric (rel),(w) 2 W9/V31KC ILExpert MB1Dennis (w) 3 K1NW RIK4D Brian (w) 4 WM6P GAK4D Steve (w) 5 NA4C TNK4Vollie (w) 6 WF0M COK4D Mike (w) 7 W4KBX FLK3s Richard (w) 8 N8SBE MIK3s Dave (w),(op) Good conditions on 80M tonight, although there was some QRN from lightning in the TX/OK/KS/NE area. My antenna misbehaved this evening, so Eric helped out tremendously with relaying for net control, who had to run barefoot 100W, because the amplifier kept faulting out There was also another QSO going on just below us, which made it harder to copy some of the weaker stations. Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz (we moved to 3786 kHz this evening), 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w): Call State Radio Name 1 KE3KQ PAK4D Ben (w) 2 WB9JNZILFTdx101d Eric (w) 3 K8NU OHFTdx101d Carl (w) 4 K1NW RIK4D Brian (w) 5 WM6P GAK4D Steve (w) 6 WW4JF TNK3s John (w) 7 NA4C TNK4Vollie (w) 8 WY3T FLK3s Tim (w) 9 AE6JV NHK3Bill (w) 10 W9/V31KC ILXPert MB1 Dennis (w) 11 N8SBEMIK3s Dave (w),(op) Good conditions on 80M tonight. My antenna behaved this evening, so aside from needing to move up 2 kHz to get away from a QSO that was on 3783 kHz (sorry to some of the folks in the GA/TN/FL area that were still having issues with the adjacent QSO) I was able to conduct a normal net. Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (rel): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 WB9JNZILFTdx101d Eric (rel),(w),(ncs) 2 AE6JV NHK3/Expert 1.2KBill (w),(rel) 3 K8NU OHFTdx101d Carl (w) 4 KB9AVOINK4D Paul (w) 5 K1NW RIK4D Brian (w) 6 W9/V31KC ILIC-705Dennis (w) 7 AB0R MNK4/KPA500 Dave (w) 8 W4KBX FLK3s Richard (w) 9 WY3T FLK3s/KPA500Tim (w) 10 K5PD TXK4Pete (w) 11 KB1NUMAK4D John (w) 12 N8SBEMIK3s/KPA500Dave (ncs) Good conditions on 80M tonight. Your net control was a bit late, thanks to Eric, WB9NJZ for kicking things off! For whatever reason my antenna behaved itself this evening, so I was able to conduct the net almost normally, only competing with needing to get back with the rest of the household watching the Superbowl. Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
Karl, We usually do have a pre-net call up, sometimes as much as 15 minutes early, and several of the stations last night were running 'barefoot' (100W), some into EFHW wire antennas, so please don't despair. Since I was having antenna issues last night, I ended up running barefoot myself, and most stations could still hear me. I'm using an inverted Vee configuration of a ZS6BKW dipole which is fed with window line and coax, and tuned at the far end by the tuner in my K3s (or KAT500 when running the KPA500). We also have a couple or more stations that are looking out for stations to relay into the net, one of which is in northern GA, so he should be able to hear you. Please give us another try next Sunday, and we'll try extra hard to listen up for weak signals. The band was pretty quiet last night, and if that keeps up, we should be successful. See you next week, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2023-02-06 09:45, Karl W Hubbard wrote: Hi Dave, I finally rigged up a Buckmaster 7 band OCF dipole to replace the inadequate 80m low band coil vertical hoping that I could make a QSO. The problem is my KX3, KPA100 and PX3 at 100W get steamrolled by all these KPA500s and 1500s out there. I can receive but get lost in the pileup and don't know if my sigal is even strong enough. Is there any way you could reserve a brief "quiet period" call out where only those running portable and/or 100W or less could try to call in before opening up the net to the big guns? Maybe 5 minutes before 9:00 for example? The best I can hope for is to see if you could at least receive my call sign, as obvioulsy I could not sustain any QSO anyway and I think there would be very few call-ins in this "category" 73's Karl AF5LQ (costal NC) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w) and relays (r): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 W4CBSFLK4D Don (w) 2 AI5DKTXIC-7300 Dave (w) 3 K8NU OHFTdx101D/Mercury IIIS Carl (w) 4 WM6P GAK4D Steve (w) 5 N4CF VAK4D/KPA500Mike (w) 6 WB3LGC DEK4D/KPA500Steve (w) 7 NA4C TNK4D/KPA500Vollie (w) 8 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d/KPA1500 Eric (w),(r) 9 KE3KQPAK4D Ben (w) 10 WY3T FLK3s Tim (w) 11 VA1RST NSExpert SunSDR2Roger (w) 12 K5PD TXK4Pete (w) 13 AE6JVNHK3/Expert 1.3KBill (w) 14 N8SBEMIK3s/KPA500Dave (w),(op) 15 W9/V31KC ILExpert MB1Dennis (w) 16 WF0M COK4D/KPA1500 Mike (w) Very good conditions on 80M tonight. Your net control was having antenna(?) issues again this evening, and ended up having to run 100W barefoot (again), and Eric, WB9JNZ pitched in with relays and finished running the net. THANK YOU, Eric! We also had a check in from Colorado this evening, and I think this is the first time we've had a check in from that state in recent memory on the 80M net. So, those that are out in the Mountain time zone or even farther out, give it a try before the summer static and extended daylight sets in again. Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
Thanks Dave, Thanks for the Netlogger tip. I will run Netlogger, too. I did find a Linux install (.deb) at http://netlogger.org/download.php, so all should be good. (Install OK, Run OK) 73 steve WB3LGC On 1/30/23 1:30 PM, Dave New, N8SBE wrote: I post the current frequency, so if you go to the Netlogger site during net time, you should be able to find us quite easily __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
I have a couple of contesters within a few miles of me who were obliterating many kHz of the 160 band in this week's CQ CW contest. One has a Yaesu 1000D with 5+ kHz of phase noise, the other has a 1000MP with discrete spurs over at least 10 kHz. Of course they both run big amps. Another guy 50 miles away looked like he was sending MCW. If the photo of his shack on QRZ is to be believed, he's running an Omni6 + amp. Wes N7WS On 1/30/2023 12:51 PM, Jim Brown wrote: Not necessarily an overdriven amp. Yaesu made several models of radios that did that, no matter what you did to them. I don't know if current models have the same problem, but you'll hear (and see on a P3) many of them ragchewing on any phone band. The P3 will show the splatter as widening of the waterfall on voice peaks. 73, Jim K9YC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
Regarding some of the net and QRM issues mentioned in the attached post, the ARRL Volunteer Monitor organization can easily deal with deliberate interference to nets. Remember, NO ONE or NO ORGANIZATION owns any frequency on any band. Likewise, hams who have a Tech or General class license are very easy hunting when operating in the Advanced or Extra frequency segment of any band. A good operator, selecting 3 kHz above or below any net is good operating practice. For those that insist on transmitting wide band audio, do so at your on risk. 73 Bob, K4TAX On 1/30/2023 12:30 PM, elecraft-requ...@mailman.qth.net wrote: Message: 23 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 12:30:17 -0600 From: "Dave New, N8SBE" To:elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Steve, Yeah, we got chased away from 3775 by a persistent adjacent GA net meeting at the same time on 3778. You'd think we could co-exist, but one station in GA on there insisted on overdriving his amplifier causing splatter +-5 kHz either side of what should have been a nominal 3 kHz-wide channel. Rather than start a cat-fight on the air (or by email) we decided the batter part of valor was to move elsewhere. 3784 kHz has been good for us the last several weeks, but last night at least a half-hour before our net time, there was a conversation going on there between two stations, one of which was signing an "F6" (France) call sign, so my guess is they were speaking French, which is not my forte, by any stretch of the imagination. It turned out that 3781 was clear, and remained so for us, so we moved down 3 kHz and operated the net there. I've been using (mis-using?) Netlogger, and when I start up the net, I post the current frequency, so if you go to the Netlogger site during net time, you should be able to find us quite easily. I'd really like to move us into the General portion of the band, so more folks can join in, but that's a tough job on 80 meters, even on a Sunday. Generally that portion of the band is wall-to-wall with nets and scheduled conversations (old friends, etc) during the evening hours all days of the week. The ARRL net directory is not very friendly for searches, like "what frequencies are NOT in use in the General portion of the band on Sundays at 9pm ET". Suggestions for how to solve that mystery are welcome (I do have a P3, and know how to use it, just to head off the more obvious replies). 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
On 1/30/2023 10:30 AM, Dave New, N8SBE wrote: You'd think we could co-exist, but one station in GA on there insisted on overdriving his amplifier causing splatter +-5 kHz either side of what should have been a nominal 3 kHz-wide channel. Not necessarily an overdriven amp. Yaesu made several models of radios that did that, no matter what you did to them. I don't know if current models have the same problem, but you'll hear (and see on a P3) many of them ragchewing on any phone band. The P3 will show the splatter as widening of the waterfall on voice peaks. 73, Jim K9YC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
Steve, Yeah, we got chased away from 3775 by a persistent adjacent GA net meeting at the same time on 3778. You'd think we could co-exist, but one station in GA on there insisted on overdriving his amplifier causing splatter +-5 kHz either side of what should have been a nominal 3 kHz-wide channel. Rather than start a cat-fight on the air (or by email) we decided the batter part of valor was to move elsewhere. 3784 kHz has been good for us the last several weeks, but last night at least a half-hour before our net time, there was a conversation going on there between two stations, one of which was signing an "F6" (France) call sign, so my guess is they were speaking French, which is not my forte, by any stretch of the imagination. It turned out that 3781 was clear, and remained so for us, so we moved down 3 kHz and operated the net there. I've been using (mis-using?) Netlogger, and when I start up the net, I post the current frequency, so if you go to the Netlogger site during net time, you should be able to find us quite easily. I'd really like to move us into the General portion of the band, so more folks can join in, but that's a tough job on 80 meters, even on a Sunday. Generally that portion of the band is wall-to-wall with nets and scheduled conversations (old friends, etc) during the evening hours all days of the week. The ARRL net directory is not very friendly for searches, like "what frequencies are NOT in use in the General portion of the band on Sundays at 9pm ET". Suggestions for how to solve that mystery are welcome (I do have a P3, and know how to use it, just to head off the more obvious replies). :-) 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2023-01-30 08:41, email wrote: Dave, I had an old freq (3775). I did find 3781 and YL interrupted for important stuff on TV. I missed , BUT the net with new freq info is back on the calendar. I'll try again, 73 Steve WB3LGC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
Dave, I had an old freq (3775). I did find 3781 and YL interrupted for important stuff on TV. I missed , BUT the net with new freq info is back on the calendar. I'll try again, 73 Steve WB3LGC On 1/29/23 10:18 PM, Dave New, N8SBE wrote: 3784 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 K8NU OH FTdx101d Carl (w) 2 WB9JNZ IL FTdx101d Eric (w) 3 N8SBE MI K3s Dave (w),(op) Good conditions on 80M tonight. However, there was a conversation on 3784 this evening, so we were able to move down to 3781 kHz. Your net control was having antenna(?) issues again this evening, and ended up having to run 100W barefoot, which worked out OK since there is very little QRN on 80M in the winter. Sorry if we missed you this evening, with the last minute frequency change and all. Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to em...@nr3i.org __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
Rats! I worked all day having set up my Buckmaster 7 Band OCF today after having taken two weeks to construct my tennis ball antenna launcher. The Buckmaster how is sub optimal because I had to connect 2 50' coaxes and while the apex of the V is high enough and the ends of both arms were easily elevated more than 10 feet, and the end points with downward slopes of the max 20 degrees, the arms had to be angled 70 degrees horizontally and thus not linear and so probably it is compromised some what, but it really is the best I could do with my lot. Haven't tried an end fed. At least I won't have to put and take down my Buddipole Vertcial, plus I enjoy the multibands 10-80. My SWR was 1.3 at 80 m, which was actually one of the best, and certainly no problem for my KPAX100 ATU. Anyway, I could certainly hear those usurpers who were on 3.784. (Italian?) but the proof is in the ability to TX. My suggestion would be from now on to list a minimum of three frequencies, i.e., two defaults. BTW, my FCC license is up for renewal next month. I looked into it and tried changing my address from Natchez MS to here in the coast of NC. Is the site working? Is there a fee? I couldn't figure it out. Government. Agency. What do you expect? 73's KarlAF5LQ. On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 10:20:22 PM EST, Dave New, N8SBE wrote: 3784 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 K8NU OH FTdx101d Carl (w) 2 WB9JNZ IL FTdx101d Eric (w) 3 N8SBE MI K3s Dave (w),(op) Good conditions on 80M tonight. However, there was a conversation on 3784 this evening, so we were able to move down to 3781 kHz. Your net control was having antenna(?) issues again this evening, and ended up having to run 100W barefoot, which worked out OK since there is very little QRN on 80M in the winter. Sorry if we missed you this evening, with the last minute frequency change and all. Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to karlwhubb...@yahoo.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 K8NU OHFTdx101d Carl (w) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d Eric (w) 3 N8SBEMIK3sDave (w),(op) Good conditions on 80M tonight. However, there was a conversation on 3784 this evening, so we were able to move down to 3781 kHz. Your net control was having antenna(?) issues again this evening, and ended up having to run 100W barefoot, which worked out OK since there is very little QRN on 80M in the winter. Sorry if we missed you this evening, with the last minute frequency change and all. Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w), and relays (r): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 K8NU OHFTdx101d Carl (w) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTdx101d Eric (w),(r) 3 WM6P GAK4DSteve (w),(r) 4 N8SBEMIK3sDave (w),(op) 5 NA4C TNK4 Vollie (w) 6 WY3T FLK3sTim (w) 7 W4CBSFLK4 #1120 Don (w) 8 KG9NGWIKX2/KXPA100Sam (w) 9 KC8WHOHK3s/KPA500 Mike (w) 10 K5PDTXK4 Pete (w) 11 KB9AVO INK4 Paul (w) Good conditions on 80M tonight. Net control could hear all stations, although a couple couldn't hear me, so thank you to the relays for pulling them into the net! Of note was the serial number of Don W4CBS's K4, 1120. Anyone else heard any later serial number on the air, yet? Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
Karl, Sorry we missed you. 80M on a short vertical can be challenging, since the efficiency is so low, the ERP will only be a small fraction of the power applied to the antenna. If you can find any way to get a wire in the air, the longer the better. It doesn't have to be full-size 1/2 wave for 80M (130 ft). I use a ZS6BKW in an inverted vee configuration with the center up about 35 feet on a telescoping mast which is bracketed to the back of the house. The wires when viewed from the top are only about 90 degrees apart, with one leg going SE and the going SW, tied off to the corners of the back yard of my small city corner lot. The ZS6BKW is about 100 ft long, but when the legs are sloped down from the center point, it doesn't need all of that almost 50 feet in each direction. The ZS6BKW is fed with about 30 ft. of window line, which then transitions to 50-ohm coax without a balun. It's recommended to use about 75 ft. of coax to the transmitter at that point, and then you can use a tuner at the transmitter to make the transmitter happy. I use this antenna mainly on 80M and 40M, having a 2 el. quad for 20M-6M. Yes, the SWR on the coax is somewhat high, but despite what a lot of folks will tell you, you really don't lose a lot of power in that piece of coax at 3.8 MHz. The result is that I get a respectable signal out on 80M with that setup, running barefoot 100W with my K3s, or in summer conditions on 80M with a lot of summer static, my KPA500 helps to make myself heard over the QRN. Hope this gives you some ideas. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE On 2023-01-09 20:29, Karl W Hubbard wrote: Hi gang. I tried making QSO last night but missed my last week's savior relay on RI. I could hear Bill in NH and then later Steve in GA and finally Merv on Cape Cod , all 5/9s but unable to work the net with 100W on my KPA100 and KX3 portable with vertical low band coil Buddipole with SWR at 1.4 I'm 30 miles from the NE coast of NC so probably can hear FL as well. Ugh, this lack of a good antenna like a dipole is killing me. Not sure an EFHW or OCF will cut it either on TX. I wonder if I should just spring for a KPA1500, but I don't think that is comparable with KX3. At cross purposes using a portable QRP rig with a blaster. I can put any hideous vertical in the parking lot, but 90 feet x 60 feet not big enough for wires. 73s Karl. AF5LQ Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone [1] Links: -- [1] https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
I have a similar sized lot and am located in a city. Antennas are everything on HF and the bigger the better. I tried just about everything but eventually sprung for a rooftop tower and a SteppIr 3 element. Huge improvement. Much better than a dipole. I hear the hex beam antennas work pretty well, are less intrusive and don't require as much in the way of a tower or rotor. -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Karl W Hubbard via Elecraft Sent: Monday, January 9, 2023 6:30 PM To: Dave New, N8SBE ; Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report Hi gang. I tried making QSO last night but missed my last week’s savior relay on RI. I could hear Bill in NH and then later Steve in GA and finally Merv on Cape Cod , all 5/9s but unable to work the net with 100W on my KPA100 and KX3 portable with vertical low band coil Buddipole with SWR at 1.4 I’m 30 miles from the NE coast of NC so probably can hear FL as well. Ugh, this lack of a good antenna like a dipole is killing me. Not sure an EFHW or OCF will cut it either on TX. I wonder if I should just spring for a KPA1500, but I don’t think that is comparable with KX3. At cross purposes using a portable QRP rig with a blaster. I can put any hideous vertical in the parking lot, but 90 feet x 60 feet not big enough for wires. 73s Karl. AF5LQ Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, January 8, 2023, 10:23 PM, Dave New, N8SBE wrote: 3784 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w), and relays (r): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MI K3s/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ IL FTDX101d Eric (w),(r) 3 K8NU OH FTDX101d Carl (w) 4 AE6JV NH K3/Xpert 1.3K Bill (w),(r) 5 WM6P GA K4D/KPA1500 Steve (w),(r) 6 W8LVN IL K3s Bill (w) 7 W4KBX FL IC7300/KPA500 Richard (w) 8 W2OE MA FTDX101mp/KPA1500 Merv (w) 9 W8RNG OH IC7300 Tim (w) 10 KE4WY KY K4D/KPA1500 Jim (w) 11 WW4JF TN K3s/KPA500 John (w) 12 K9ZTV MO FT897D Kent (w) 13 KE3KQ PA K4D Ben (w) An interesting conversation ensued surrounding the various RF front ends found in current modern radios, and the pros and cons of each. Homework will consist of reading up on this so we can all be better informed by next week... Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to karlwhubb...@yahoo.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to gthorn...@thorntonmostullaw.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
Hi gang. I tried making QSO last night but missed my last week’s savior relay on RI. I could hear Bill in NH and then later Steve in GA and finally Merv on Cape Cod , all 5/9s but unable to work the net with 100W on my KPA100 and KX3 portable with vertical low band coil Buddipole with SWR at 1.4 I’m 30 miles from the NE coast of NC so probably can hear FL as well. Ugh, this lack of a good antenna like a dipole is killing me. Not sure an EFHW or OCF will cut it either on TX. I wonder if I should just spring for a KPA1500, but I don’t think that is comparable with KX3. At cross purposes using a portable QRP rig with a blaster. I can put any hideous vertical in the parking lot, but 90 feet x 60 feet not big enough for wires. 73s Karl. AF5LQ Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, January 8, 2023, 10:23 PM, Dave New, N8SBE wrote: 3784 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w), and relays (r): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MI K3s/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ IL FTDX101d Eric (w),(r) 3 K8NU OH FTDX101d Carl (w) 4 AE6JV NH K3/Xpert 1.3K Bill (w),(r) 5 WM6P GA K4D/KPA1500 Steve (w),(r) 6 W8LVN IL K3s Bill (w) 7 W4KBX FL IC7300/KPA500 Richard (w) 8 W2OE MA FTDX101mp/KPA1500 Merv (w) 9 W8RNG OH IC7300 Tim (w) 10 KE4WY KY K4D/KPA1500 Jim (w) 11 WW4JF TN K3s/KPA500 John (w) 12 K9ZTV MO FT897D Kent (w) 13 KE3KQ PA K4D Ben (w) An interesting conversation ensued surrounding the various RF front ends found in current modern radios, and the pros and cons of each. Homework will consist of reading up on this so we can all be better informed by next week... Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to karlwhubb...@yahoo.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w), and relays (r): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBEMIK3s/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ ILFTDX101d Eric (w),(r) 3 K8NU OHFTDX101d Carl (w) 4 AE6JVNHK3/Xpert 1.3K Bill (w),(r) 5 WM6P GAK4D/KPA1500Steve (w),(r) 6 W8LVNILK3sBill (w) 7 W4KBXFLIC7300/KPA500 Richard (w) 8 W2OE MAFTDX101mp/KPA1500 Merv (w) 9 W8RNGOHIC7300 Tim (w) 10 KE4WY KYK4D/KPA1500Jim (w) 11 WW4JF TNK3s/KPA500 John (w) 12 K9ZTV MOFT897D Kent (w) 13 KE3KQ PAK4DBen (w) An interesting conversation ensued surrounding the various RF front ends found in current modern radios, and the pros and cons of each. Homework will consist of reading up on this so we can all be better informed by next week... Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w), and relays (r): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 W9PCSWIK4D/KPA500 Paul (w) 2 W4KBXFLK3s/KPA500 Richard (w) 3 WB9JNZ ILFTDX101D Eric (w),(r) 4 K1NW RIK4DBrian (w),(r) 5 KB9AVO INK4D#76/KPA1500 Paul (w) 6 WA4CEM GAK4DArt (w) 7 K1DIHCTK3 Brian (w) 8 AB0R MNK4/KPA500 Dave (w) 9 N5ZM ARK3sEarl (w) 10 AF5LQ/P NCKX3 100W Karl (w) 11 K8NUOHFTDX101D Carl (w),(r) 12 AE1ETXK4DKen (w) 13 WF0M/P COIC-7610Mike (w) 14 N8SBE MIK3s/KPA500 Dave (o) A shout out to Paul, KB9AVO, who has returned to the airwaves from a several-month absence! Sounding good, Paul! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3784 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). NOTE: Frequency change going forward to avoid splatter from Kentucky Net on 3778 kHz. NOTE: NO NET NEXT SUNDAY (Christmas Day). We will resume on Sunday, Jan 1st, 2023. Thanks to the following checkins: CallState Radio/Amp Name 1 WM6PGA K4DSteve (relay) 2 WB9JNZ IL FTdx101d Eric (relay) 3 N2TNQ NJ K3 Len 4 KG0KP MO K3/AL-1500 Jim 5 WE4CAM GA K4DArt 6 W9JFK WI KX3/KXP100 Joel 7 N8SBE MI K3S/KPA500 Dave (op) 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3775 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following checkins: CallRadio/Amp State NameSigs 1 AE6JV K3/1.3KNHBill59 (relay) 2 WM6PK4D/KPA1500GASteve 59 4 N8SBE K3S/KPA500 MIDave(ncs) 4 KG0KP K3/AL1500 MOJim 59 5 N0NBK3/ALS600 KSNate59 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report
3775 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following checkins: CallRadio/Amp State NameSigs 1 AE6JV K3/1.3KNHBill59+15dB 2 WB9JNZ FTDX101D/KPA1500 ILEric59+5dB 3 WM6PK4D/KPA1500GASteve 4 KA1ULN K3 70W MANiece 5 N8SBE K3S/KPA500 MIDave(op) 6 W4KBX K3S/KPA500 FLRichard 57 7 N5ZMK3S/KPA1500AREarl59 8 WW4JF K3S/KPA500 TNJohn59+5dB 9 K4TAX K3STNBob 58 10 KD9V K4DINNick59 My first attempt at using Netlogger, which I had just managed to download and install about 5 minutes before the net. Thanks for all the patience from the net participants, while I was learning it on the fly. Hopefully, I'll have a much better handle on it by next week. 73, -- Dave, N8SBE __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
