Elecraft SSB Net Question

[GeorgeP1111]

Last Sunday I checked in to the Elecraft SSB net on 14.303.5 at 1800z.  Eric WB9JNZ was net control and I heard him fine and he heard me after a few calls.  Today I could not hear Eric but did hear a few stations checking in, and a few relays.  What is considered the proper procedure for a station unable to hear net control?  Should I wait for net control to ask someone I can hear to give out a net call and act as a relay?  Should I just keep throwing out my call and hopefully someone will hear me and act as a relay?  Should I pick up my toys and go home till next Sunday in the hopes of better propagation conditions?

I suppose the last option makes the most sense because is there much point to checking into a net one can’t hear.  

I’m running a KX3 at 10 watts into a 40m EFHW that is resonant on 20 meters from a 3rd floor apartment to a tree.  I suspect that most times I won’t be able to check into the net, but most of the fun with QRP is when the unexpected happens.

Just thought I’d ask rather than cause unneeded QRM.

tnx
de George
WD0AKZ
dit – dit

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[Bill Frantz]

Welcome to the net George.

I am often in your situation when I'm in New Hampshire with my
KX3. The following is what I try to do, but I would also love
advice about better ways. (BTW, I wouldn't worry too much about
QRMing the net. If you can QRM the net, then someone can hear
you and will relay.)

There seem to be two situations:

  (1) You can figure out when to transmit to check in.
  (2) You can't.

If you can figure out when to call, add "need relay" to your
call. If someone else can hear you, they will try to relay. (The
last time I tried this technique from NH, both of use were cut
off from the rest of the net.)

If you can't figure it out, if you can copy someone who is
checking into the net, try to call them for a relay.

One of the great joys of this net is the relaying. Relaying is
how amateur radio started -- it is the Amateur Radio RELAY
League after all. We never know who will be relaying from week
to week. This week, Phil NS7P, in Oregon was coming in S9+ with
QSB into the San Francisco Bay Area, where I live. Eric, WB9JNZ,
the usual net control was about S5 and faded as the net started.
(Eric and I were running 1KW+.) I heard Bill, K7BRR try to
checkin from Astoria, OR at about S6 and neither Eric nor Phil
could hear him. Eric could no longer hear me, so I relayed the
checkin to Phil who relayed it to Eric. Great practice for
emergency communications.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 7/15/18 at 2:03 PM, [hidden email] (George Pasek) wrote:

>Last Sunday I checked in to the Elecraft SSB net on 14.303.5 at
>1800z.  Eric WB9JNZ was net control and I heard him fine and he
>heard me after a few calls.  Today I could not hear Eric but
>did hear a few stations checking in, and a few relays.  What is
>considered the proper procedure for a station unable to hear
>net control?  Should I wait for net control to ask someone I
>can hear to give out a net call and act as a relay?  Should I
>just keep throwing out my call and hopefully someone will hear
>me and act as a relay?  Should I pick up my toys and go home
>till next Sunday in the hopes of better propagation conditions?
>
>I suppose the last option makes the most sense because is there
>much point to checking into a net one can’t hear.
>I’m running a KX3 at 10 watts into a 40m EFHW that is
>resonant on 20 meters from a 3rd floor apartment to a tree.  I
>suspect that most times I won’t be able to check into the
>net, but most of the fun with QRP is when the unexpected happens.
>
>Just thought I’d ask rather than cause unneeded QRM.
>
>tnx
>de George
>WD0AKZ
>dit – dit

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