We had our monthly HF Net on 3/5/25 at 8:30 AM Pacific Time. Kirk – KK6KC was in the A3 shack, Doug – KM4GC was in his home QTH in Leesburg, VA, and Al Carlson – NA1N in his home QTH in Laytonsville MD. Dan Plaster was also there most of the time as an observer.
The HF Net for the AEA Amateur Radio Club started at 8:30 AM PST on Wednesday February 5. Operators were Kirk Crawford KK6KC at the A3 Shack in El Segundo CA, and Al Carlson NA1N at his home QTH in Laytonsville MD. Jeff Light also attended as an observer.
Results
Band (M)
Frequency (MHz)
KK6KC Report
NA1N Report
12
24.961
5-3
3-4
15
21.280
2-3
3-3
17
18.116
1-3
2-3
20
14.275
1-3
1-3
40
7.262
–
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Al is using a fan dipole and his 10M band element was broken. I suspect we would have had even better communication there than on 12M.
Our January HF Net started at 8:30AM PST on January 22, 2025. I (Kirk Crawford KK6KC) was in the A3 shack in El Segundo with Kevin Kirio AJ6ZJ. Doug McNulty KM4GC was at his home QTH in Leesburg VA. Bob Lanahan KK6WYW joined us late as an observer. We tried several bands from 10M to 20M. Best was 12M. Here are the results:
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/TX
Kirk
Doug
Bob
Kirk
–
5-3
–
Doug
–
–
–
Bob
–
–
–
18.125 MHz
RX/TX
Kirk
Doug
Bob
Kirk
–
5-3
3-4
Doug
–
–
5-9
Bob
2-4
–
–
21.317 MHz
RX/TX
Kirk
Doug
Bob
Kirk
–
5-4
–
Doug
5-7
–
Bob
–
–
24.964 MHz
RX/TX
Kirk
Doug
Bob
Kirk
–
5-8
–
Doug
5-3
–
Bob
–
–
28.640 MHz
RX/TX
Doug
Bob
Doug
–
5-2 to 5-7
Bob
5-2 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!
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
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:
On February 28 2024 11:30 AM PDT we had a meeting. Our presentation was on VarAC a new HF Chat mode. Doug McNulty (KM4GC) and Bob Lanahan (KK6WYW) gave the talk. I presented a few slides at the beginning about our A3 Antenna status and the EOC trailer status.
