November 2024 HF Net

We had our HF Net for November on 11/6 at 8:30 AM PST.

David Ping WB6DP joined me, Kirk Crawford KK6KC in the A3 Shack, and we had Doug McNulty KM4GC in Leesburg VA and Bob Lanahan KK6WYW in Vero Beach FL. Kevin Kirio was in the teams meeting as an observer.

We tried several bands. Here are the results:

14.270 MHz – No Contact

RX/TXKirkDougBob
Kirk5-3
Doug
Bob
18.125 MHz
RX/TXKirkDougBob
Kirk5-33-4
Doug5-9
Bob2-4
21.317 MHz
RX/TXKirkDougBob
Kirk5-4
Doug5-7
Bob
24.964 MHz
RX/TXKirkDougBob
Kirk5-8
Doug5-3
Bob
28.640 MHz
RX/TXDougBob
Doug5-2 to 5-7
Bob5-2 to 5-7
14.288 MHz (Lots of Fading)

So we had workable coast to coast communication on multiple bands. The propagation was rapidly changing during the contacts. See you next month!

October 2024 HAM Club Meeting

We had our October HAM Club meeting on Thursday October 31, 2024 at 11:30 AM on Teams and in A3/1607A. Many folks attended and we had a presentation on RTTY with real teletype machines by Harold Hallikainen W6IWI. Here are my meeting slides:

Kirk’s Slides

Recording of the Meeting

This is the recording. Note this only works from within Aerospace. For those outside of the Aerospace network here is another recording of the same presentation given at the Long Island CW Club.

October 2024 HF Net Report

We had our October 2024 HF net at 8:30 AM PDT on October 2. We had pretty good propagation today, especially on 20 between LA and Tucson which is highly unusual.

Operators

  • Kirk Crawford- KK6KC – El Segundo, CA – AGO A3 Shack
  • Tom Fagan – K7DF – Tucson, AZ – Raytheon HAM Club Shack
  • Al Carlson – NA1N – Laytonsville, MD – Home Shack

20 Meters

RX\TXAlTomKirk
Al5-5
Tom5-55-9
Kirk20 Over
14.275 MHz

17 Meters

RX\TXAlTomKirk
Al5-33-3
Tom5-5
Kirk2-3
18.145 MHz

15 Meters

RX\TXAlTomKirk
Al5-93-3
Tom5-95-5
Kirk3-35-5
21.300 MHz

10 Meters

RX\TXAlTomKirk
Al5-6
Tom5-75-5
Kirk4-5
28.593 MHz

VSWR & Stuff with Nano VNA – Sep 2024

Our club meeting was on September 25, 2025 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Pacific Time. We had several members on Teams and quite a few in the room in A3/2226 MMC.

Kirk’s Slides

The main focus of the meeting was the presentation by Carl Foster, KB7AZ about VSWR and VNAs.

Carl’s Slides

Go here for his slides with the video.

Recording of the Meeting

Here is a link to the recording of the meeting. Note: this will only work inside the Aerospace Network.

Smith Chart

Here is a link to the Smith Chart that Carl had us print out.

September HF Net

The HF Net began at 8:30 AM PDT with Kirk – KK6KC, Tom -K7DF, Doug-KM4GC and Stephanie-KN6RNB. We had time to do 20 Meters and 15 Meters. Here are the results:

20M – 14.312 MHz

RX/TXTomKirkDougStephanie
Tom5-55-7
Kirk3-52-55-9
Doug5-75-3
Stephanie5-6
14.312

15M – 21.346 MHz

RX/TXTomKirkDougStephanie
Tom5-9
Kirk2-45-9
Doug5-93-2
Stephanie5-9
21.346

August 2024 HF Net

Our August HF Net occurred on Wednesday August 14 at 8:30 AM Pacific Time. We had the following operators in attendance:

Kirk

KK6KC – A3 Shack

Stephanie

KN6RNB – El Segundo

Doug

KM4GC – Michigan

Tom

K7DF- Raytheon Shack, Tucson AZ

We tried to communicate on 20 Meters and 15 Meters. Here are our results:

RX/TXDougKirkTomStephanie
Doug3-3
Kirk2-15-9
Tom
Stephanie5-5
20 meters (14.261 MHz)
RX/TXDougKirkStephanie
Doug5-7
Kirk2-35-7
Stephanie5-9
15 meters (21.276 MHz)

Tom had to leave the meeting after we did 20 meters.

73 until next month! – Kirk KK6KC

June 2024 HF Net

We had the June HF net on Wednesday June 5 at 8:30 AM. Participants were:

  • Kirk Crawford – KK6KC – A3 Shack, El Segundo CA
  • Doug McNulty – KM4GC – Historic Leesburg VA
  • Al Carlson – NA1N – Laytonsville MD
  • Bob Lanahan – KK6WYW – Vero Beach FL

We tried several bands. We did not have any communications on 28.434 MHz or 24.962 Mhz. Below are the bands we did have some communications on:

RX/TXAlDougKirkBob
Al3-33-32-1
Doug
Kirk2-1
Bob4-4
14.227 MHz
RX/TXAlDougKirkBob
Al3-3
Doug5-4
Kirk5-5 S63-3
Bob2-2
21.315MHz
RX/TXAlDougKirkBob
Al1-13-3
Doug2-3
Kirk3-32-11-1
Bob2-11-1
18.157 MHz

Overall conditions were pretty bad. Probably due to the solar flux issues with all the CME stuff lately.

AEA Amateur Radio Club