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Here are today's Elecraft SSB net results. We had a good net today, with 34
check-ins. Thanks go out to Bob, W1IS, and Phil, NS7P, for relay assistance. KM4IK Ian GA K3 281 WV5I Duane TX K3 5287 W1WY Jim CA Icom IC-7000 NS7P Phil OR K3 1826 KA0NCR Artie NE K3 185 W7QDH Kurt AZ K2 1538 WW4JS John TN K3 6185 AG6IS Scott CA K3 4117 WO1I Dick MA K3 911 K7BRR Bill AZ K3 5545 W1IS Bob MA K3 6762 WB9JNZ Eric IL K3 4017 W0CZ Ken ND K3 457 K5OAI Sam TX K3 4123 K9QJS Hoop WA K3 6884 W4RKS Jim AL K3 3618 W8OV Dave TX K3 3139 K1NW Brian RI K3 4974 WA0TPN Scott IA K3 7663 KX2AB Tony TX Kenwood TS590 KD7KD Allan MT K2 7301 WN4SLG Doug TN K3 6433 KD4PS Dave IL KX3 3389 W7NMD Palmer AR K3 3779 KA5LYL Todd TX Yaesu FT-450 KI6UM Lou CA K3 2773 AA2EA Phil KY KX3 4425 W4PFM Paul VA K3 1673 K5RHD Randy NM K3 7170 VE3XM Bob ON K3 409 K3NLT Russ VA K2 757 K8JDC Dave OH K3 6332 KE5VDT Roger TX K3 6054 KC9USC Robert IL KX3 4460 Thank you to everyone who checked in this week. Have a great week, and we'll talk to you on the air next Sunday! 73, -- Ian Ian Kahn, KM4IK Roswell, GA EM74ua <mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email] K3 #281, P3 #688, KPA500 #1468 HRD v5.x/6.0 Test Team ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I have one correction to make to last week's attendee list. John in TN is WW4JF, not WW4JS. My apologies for the error. 73, -- Ian Ian Kahn, KM4IK Roswell, GA EM74ua <mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email] K3 #281, P3 #688, KPA500 #1468 HRD v5.x/6.0 Test Team From: Ian Kahn - Ham [mailto:[hidden email]] Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 2:58 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: Elecraft SSB Net results, September 8 Here are today's Elecraft SSB net results. We had a good net today, with 34 check-ins. Thanks go out to Bob, W1IS, and Phil, NS7P, for relay assistance. KM4IK Ian GA K3 281 WV5I Duane TX K3 5287 W1WY Jim CA Icom IC-7000 NS7P Phil OR K3 1826 KA0NCR Artie NE K3 185 W7QDH Kurt AZ K2 1538 WW4JS John TN K3 6185 AG6IS Scott CA K3 4117 WO1I Dick MA K3 911 K7BRR Bill AZ K3 5545 W1IS Bob MA K3 6762 WB9JNZ Eric IL K3 4017 W0CZ Ken ND K3 457 K5OAI Sam TX K3 4123 K9QJS Hoop WA K3 6884 W4RKS Jim AL K3 3618 W8OV Dave TX K3 3139 K1NW Brian RI K3 4974 WA0TPN Scott IA K3 7663 KX2AB Tony TX Kenwood TS590 KD7KD Allan MT K2 7301 WN4SLG Doug TN K3 6433 KD4PS Dave IL KX3 3389 W7NMD Palmer AR K3 3779 KA5LYL Todd TX Yaesu FT-450 KI6UM Lou CA K3 2773 AA2EA Phil KY KX3 4425 W4PFM Paul VA K3 1673 K5RHD Randy NM K3 7170 VE3XM Bob ON K3 409 K3NLT Russ VA K2 757 K8JDC Dave OH K3 6332 KE5VDT Roger TX K3 6054 KC9USC Robert IL KX3 4460 Thank you to everyone who checked in this week. Have a great week, and we'll talk to you on the air next Sunday! 73, -- Ian Ian Kahn, KM4IK Roswell, GA EM74ua <mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email] K3 #281, P3 #688, KPA500 #1468 HRD v5.x/6.0 Test Team ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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How can we as a group increase the results of the Sunday SSB net for those of us who have KX3s running barefoot? Only 2 of the 34 checkins on Sunday were KX3s.
Frustrated and disappointed … but I keep trying … Dave, K6WDE located KH7 temporarily … KX3, serial number 4599 On Sep 12, 2013, at 5:24 PM, [hidden email] wrote: > From: Ian Kahn - Ham [mailto:[hidden email]] > Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 2:58 PM > To: [hidden email] > Subject: Elecraft SSB Net results, September 8 > > > > Here are today's Elecraft SSB net results. We had a good net today, with 34 > check-ins. Thanks go out to Bob, W1IS, and Phil, NS7P, for relay > assistance. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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There are several other KX3 Yahoo groups whose many members probably don't
even know that there IS a Sunday Elecraft net. That'd be my first suggestion. 73, Charlie k3ICH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esquer Dave" <[hidden email]> To: <[hidden email]> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 2:12 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft SSB Net results, September 8 How can we as a group increase the results of the Sunday SSB net for those of us who have KX3s running barefoot? Only 2 of the 34 checkins on Sunday were KX3s. Frustrated and disappointed … but I keep trying … Dave, K6WDE located KH7 temporarily … KX3, serial number 4599 On Sep 12, 2013, at 5:24 PM, [hidden email] wrote: > From: Ian Kahn - Ham [mailto:[hidden email]] > Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 2:58 PM > To: [hidden email] > Subject: Elecraft SSB Net results, September 8 > > > > Here are today's Elecraft SSB net results. We had a good net today, with > 34 > check-ins. Thanks go out to Bob, W1IS, and Phil, NS7P, for relay > assistance. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I was recently able to check in with my KX-3 for the first time in a year.
All it took was driving from Florida to Montana with my Radio ;-) Makes the hobby an endurance sport! Larry N9JY On 9/13/13 2:12 AM, "Esquer Dave" <[hidden email]> wrote: >How can we as a group increase the results of the Sunday SSB net for >those of us who have KX3s running barefoot? Only 2 of the 34 checkins on >Sunday were KX3s. > >Frustrated and disappointed Š but I keep trying Š > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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N7SP etal:
If I may make a suggestion that might make KX3 checkin easier. On other nets that I often check into, the first stations invited to checkin are portable, mobile, and low power stations. That gives those stations a better chance of avoiding being covered up by stronger stations. Not sure if this could be incorporated to the Elecraft-SSB net protocol? I have checked in with my KX3 sn475 several times and usually I wait till the near the end of the net when the "dust settles" a bit. I do have the advantage of a yagi at 50-feet. I also checked in with my K3/10 sn4340 barefoot many times before I had an amplifier (I have both 120w and 250w amps). I will try checking in this Sunday with 250w. Past couple weeks prop has not been nice. 73, Ed - KL7UW ---------------------- Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft SSB Net results, September 8 How can we as a group increase the results of the Sunday SSB net for those of us who have KX3s running barefoot? Only 2 of the 34 checkins on Sunday were KX3s. Frustrated and disappointed ? but I keep trying ? Dave, K6WDE located KH7 temporarily ? KX3, serial number 4599 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com [hidden email] "Kits made by KL7UW" ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Dave we need to listen better. Also better band conditions would help. I also have the KX3 and have tried to check in but failed. So I use my trusty K3.
Phil goes SOTA and makes it with his KX3. Seriously we need to relay those we hear that are not being heard by net control. Old established net etiquette. IMHO Bill J K7BRR Message: 4 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:12:00 -1000 From: Esquer Dave <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft SSB Net results, September 8 Message-ID: <[hidden email]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 How can we as a group increase the results of the Sunday SSB net for those of us who have KX3s running barefoot? Only 2 of the 34 checkins on Sunday were KX3s. Frustrated and disappointed ? but I keep trying ? Dave, K6WDE located KH7 temporarily ? KX3, serial number 4599 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Might I suggest (like I think was done in the past) that a few minutes (defined clearly) are set aside for us QRP KX3 folks to check in?
I am temporarily located in Waikoloa, HI (BK29CW). I can hear the relay from N6JW in Riverside, CA. and sometimes can directly hear NS7P from Elmira, Oregon. When net control transfers to Georgia, no way I can do anything from here. I am in a condo complex with antenna police chasing me … putting up a tower … ain't going to happen. My attic is accessible, but the roof above it is concrete tile. My simple EARC endfed 6-40 half wave dipole (http://www.earchi.org/92011endfedfiles/Endfed6_40.pdf) running inverted v in a palm tree tied to my lanai is my present setup. Respectfully and hopefully, it would be a "challenge" for those running much more power than I to pull out the "small fry" from the noise during the Sunday net. A small fish in a big pond, Dave, K6WDE, KX3 serial number: 4599 > How can we as a group increase the results of the Sunday SSB net for those of us who have KX3s running barefoot? Only 2 of the 34 checkins on Sunday were KX3s. > > Frustrated and disappointed … but I keep trying … > > Dave, K6WDE located KH7 temporarily … > KX3, serial number 4599 > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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This last Sunday, I think Netcontrol didn't come down anywhere near me. (The Raleigh NC area)
Just a few hz away there was the marine net on 14.300 that was booming in from Texas. - NO problem hearing them.. but 14.3035? Nope. Nothing. There was traffic up at 14.305 something.. so I know the antenna was working.. just not catching Atanta...(I was probably where he was hitting the ionosphere..) KK4QDZ - Now with Extra Class Priv's, and a tiny KX3 to enjoy them! ________________________________ From: Edward R Cole <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft SSB Net results, September 8 N7SP etal: If I may make a suggestion that might make KX3 checkin easier. On other nets that I often check into, the first stations invited to checkin are portable, mobile, and low power stations. That gives those stations a better chance of avoiding being covered up by stronger stations. Not sure if this could be incorporated to the Elecraft-SSB net protocol? I have checked in with my KX3 sn475 several times and usually I wait till the near the end of the net when the "dust settles" a bit. I do have the advantage of a yagi at 50-feet. I also checked in with my K3/10 sn4340 barefoot many times before I had an amplifier (I have both 120w and 250w amps). I will try checking in this Sunday with 250w. Past couple weeks prop has not been nice. 73, Ed - KL7UW ---------------------- Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft SSB Net results, September 8 How can we as a group increase the results of the Sunday SSB net for those of us who have KX3s running barefoot? Only 2 of the 34 checkins on Sunday were KX3s. Frustrated and disappointed ? but I keep trying ? Dave, K6WDE located KH7 temporarily ? KX3, serial number 4599 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com [hidden email] "Kits made by KL7UW" ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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This is an excellent suggestion and requires minimal changes to the
existing procedures. 73, Tony K4QE K3 #6478 On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Edward R Cole <[hidden email]> wrote: > N7SP etal: > > If I may make a suggestion that might make KX3 checkin easier. On other > nets that I often check into, the first stations invited to checkin are > portable, mobile, and low power stations. That gives those stations a > better chance of avoiding being covered up by stronger stations. Not sure > if this could be incorporated to the Elecraft-SSB net protocol? > > I have checked in with my KX3 sn475 several times and usually I wait till > the near the end of the net when the "dust settles" a bit. I do have the > advantage of a yagi at 50-feet. I also checked in with my K3/10 sn4340 > barefoot many times before I had an amplifier (I have both 120w and 250w > amps). > > I will try checking in this Sunday with 250w. Past couple weeks prop has > not been nice. > > 73, Ed - KL7UW > > ---------------------- > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft SSB Net results, September 8 > > How can we as a group increase the results of the Sunday SSB net for those > of us who have KX3s running barefoot? Only 2 of the 34 checkins on Sunday > were KX3s. > > Frustrated and disappointed ? but I keep trying ? > > Dave, K6WDE located KH7 temporarily ? > KX3, serial number 4599 > > > 73, Ed - KL7UW > http://www.kl7uw.com > [hidden email] > "Kits made by KL7UW" > ______________________________**______________________________**__ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/**mailman/listinfo/elecraft<http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft> > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.**htm<http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm> > Post: mailto:[hidden email].**net <[hidden email]> > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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As sometime net control when Phil is away, I try to make a point of pausing
and asking specifically for QRP check-ins, and for relays from QRP check-ins that I can't hear. Unfortunately, band conditions haven't been so good lately, and QRP signals have been tough to hear. Although I have been able to catch 2 or 3 KX3 users. Ian, KM4IK On Sep 13, 2013 2:47 PM, "Anthony Scandurra" <[hidden email]> wrote: > This is an excellent suggestion and requires minimal changes to the > existing procedures. > > 73, Tony K4QE > K3 #6478 > > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Edward R Cole <[hidden email]> > wrote: > > > N7SP etal: > > > > If I may make a suggestion that might make KX3 checkin easier. On other > > nets that I often check into, the first stations invited to checkin are > > portable, mobile, and low power stations. That gives those stations a > > better chance of avoiding being covered up by stronger stations. Not > sure > > if this could be incorporated to the Elecraft-SSB net protocol? > > > > I have checked in with my KX3 sn475 several times and usually I wait till > > the near the end of the net when the "dust settles" a bit. I do have the > > advantage of a yagi at 50-feet. I also checked in with my K3/10 sn4340 > > barefoot many times before I had an amplifier (I have both 120w and 250w > > amps). > > > > I will try checking in this Sunday with 250w. Past couple weeks prop has > > not been nice. > > > > 73, Ed - KL7UW > > > > ---------------------- > > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft SSB Net results, September 8 > > > > How can we as a group increase the results of the Sunday SSB net for > those > > of us who have KX3s running barefoot? Only 2 of the 34 checkins on Sunday > > were KX3s. > > > > Frustrated and disappointed ? but I keep trying ? > > > > Dave, K6WDE located KH7 temporarily ? > > KX3, serial number 4599 > > > > > > 73, Ed - KL7UW > > http://www.kl7uw.com > > [hidden email] > > "Kits made by KL7UW" > > ______________________________**______________________________**__ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/**mailman/listinfo/elecraft< > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft> > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.**htm< > http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm> > > Post: mailto:[hidden email].**net <[hidden email]> > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Two Sundays ago, net control DID create a "quiet time" and asked for QRP stations only to call.
I have great difficulty checking into the net from my location in Pasadena, CA, partly because I have a very tall mountain range just out the window, and between me and Oregon, and partly because my K3-10 is drowned out by stations with amplifiers. On this occasion, I was able to check in very easily. So, I concur with those who have suggested a "low power' segment of the net. Even better, two such periods would be desirable, the first about five minutes after the net opens, and about 15 minutes later, to give a second chance for anyone who could't make it the first time. (Band conditions DO change.) More active relaying by net participants would also help. On some nets, stations seem to relay only if asked. On others, they step in to relay if it's clear that a particular station isn't getting through to NC. It would be nice if the Elecraft net adopted the latter approach. One more thing....if NC has a beam antenna, he might announce " beaming east, calls from northeast and northern midwest stations only," etc. And let's all give three cheers for Phil for the great job he does as NC! Lew Lew Phelps N6LEW Pasadena, CA DM04wd Elecraft K3-10 Yaesu FT-7800 [hidden email] www.ntlew.us On Sep 13, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Ian Kahn <[hidden email]> wrote: > As sometime net control when Phil is away, I try to make a point of pausing > and asking specifically for QRP check-ins, and for relays from QRP > check-ins that I can't hear. Unfortunately, band conditions haven't been so > good lately, and QRP signals have been tough to hear. Although I have been > able to catch 2 or 3 KX3 users. > > I ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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On 9/13/2013 11:27 AM, Bill Blomgren (kk4qdz) wrote:
> Just a few hz away there was the marine net on 14.300 that was > booming in from Texas. - NO problem hearing them.. but 14.3035? Nope. > Nothing. 14.3035 is a less than great choice of frequency. The maritime nets on 14.300 [there's more than one] firmly believe they own the frequency and are there daily. They're billed as "maritime emergency nets," although 99% of the checkins are definitely not afloat, and all that I've heard in several years that are afloat are tied up to a dock somewhere [I suppose it's possible to sink at a dock]. I sometimes leave 14300 on when I'm working in the shack. > > There was traffic up at 14.305 something.. so I know the antenna was > working.. just not catching Atanta...(I was probably where he was > hitting the ionosphere..) I haven't ever checked into the SSB net, maybe I will try this Sunday. I do get into Kevin's CW net on 40 on occasion, but with the untimely departure of N0SS [SK], Kevin is just too close for 20 and by the 40m netI'm usually at dinner. It is common on many nets to call for QRP, Mobiles, etc. I've sort of equated it to the 2 Silent Periods each hour when maritime comm was CW [well ... MCW]. I'll see what happens Sun. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013 - www.cqp.org ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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