SSB Net on 20 and 40 meters

[Eric Lanzl]

Dear Members of the Elecraft SSB net and others who would like to join the net. The net meets on Sundays at 18:00 Z on a frequency of 14.303.5. Also, when Daylight savings time occurs, this will mean that the net will be one hour later if your location changes time.

I would also like to mention that we are going to try a net on 40 meters starting next Sunday at 18:45 Z. It will be hosted by Steve WM6P who is located in Georgia. We would like to try 7.282 this coming Sunday. We may have to adjust the frequency depending on occupancy of this frequency. This is experimental at this time and we will see how it works out. I will be out of town and am not able to do the 20m net this next Sunday Feb 29th but we will have stations that can log you into the net.

Also, I am experimenting with using Excel to log the stations and post to the reflector. I have not found a way to copy and past from Excel to the email that I use without it messing up the formatting or bouncing back as too large of a file. I am going to get some help with this in a couple of weeks. Please bear with me until I figure out how to work with this.

Eric Lanzl WB9JNZ net control for the 20m SSB net.
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[Edward R Cole]

First off all the e-mail in the digest I received at 8:27am on
Monday, Feb. 24 were posted on Saturday, Feb.22.  Is it normal for
the digest to wait 48-hours before posting.  My email is set for
auto-checking every 30-minutes.

Kevin's CW Net announcement was only 24-hours late by the time I read it.

Not to the topic 80 & 40m SSB Nets:

I tuned in 14.303.5 Sunday at 1800 utc (9am AKST) and band was dead -
nada - no WWV on 15-MHz; not even digital stuff on 14.070.  So
obviously did not hear the 20m net.  Made me wonder if triband yagi was broke?

Local Alaskan hams have been saying 80m is good at mid-day and not at
night!  Very different than what I used to know.  Used to be 40m
daytime/80m nighttime prop.

So maybe 40m might have some propagation > 800 miles???  Seattle is
only 1400 miles away.

I only have a inverted-V and 100w for 40m but may listen March 1st.

73, Ed - KL7UW
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Howdy Ed,

    Rick, KL7CW was my first check in on the 40 meter net yesterday.  I
live well south of Seattle.  At 0000z the band was open to AK, ND, TX,
NM, ID, WA, and CA.  20 m at 2200z was broken.  Lots of noise with not
many signals.  I think 40 meters will work well until the time change. 
I did hear a few folks talking about 160 meters opening before sunset so
the bands are not what one would think.

    GL,

       Kevin.  KD5ONS

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On 2/24/20 4:54 PM, Edward R Cole wrote:

> First off all the e-mail in the digest I received at 8:27am on Monday,
> Feb. 24 were posted on Saturday, Feb.22.  Is it normal for the digest
> to wait 48-hours before posting.  My email is set for auto-checking
> every 30-minutes.
>
> Kevin's CW Net announcement was only 24-hours late by the time I read it.
>
> Not to the topic 80 & 40m SSB Nets:
>
> I tuned in 14.303.5 Sunday at 1800 utc (9am AKST) and band was dead -
> nada - no WWV on 15-MHz; not even digital stuff on 14.070. So
> obviously did not hear the 20m net.  Made me wonder if triband yagi
> was broke?
>
> Local Alaskan hams have been saying 80m is good at mid-day and not at
> night!  Very different than what I used to know.  Used to be 40m
> daytime/80m nighttime prop.
>
> So maybe 40m might have some propagation > 800 miles??? Seattle is
> only 1400 miles away.
>
> I only have a inverted-V and 100w for 40m but may listen March 1st.
>
> 73, Ed - KL7UW
>   http://www.kl7uw.com
> Dubus-NA Business mail:
>   [hidden email]
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