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November 2024 HF Net

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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
Kirk–5-3–
Doug–––
Bob–––
18.125 MHz
RX/TXKirkDougBob
Kirk–5-33-4
Doug––5-9
Bob2-4––
21.317 MHz
RX/TXKirkDougBob
Kirk–5-4–
Doug5-7–
Bob––
24.964 MHz
RX/TXKirkDougBob
Kirk–5-8–
Doug5-3–
Bob––
28.640 MHz
RX/TXDougBob
Doug–5-2 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!

HF Net

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
Tom–5-55-7
Kirk3-5–2-55-9
Doug5-75-3–
Stephanie5-6–
14.312

15M – 21.346 MHz

RX/TXTomKirkDougStephanie
Tom–5-9
Kirk2-4–5-9
Doug5-93-2–
Stephanie5-9–
21.346

HF Net

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

HF Net

February 2024 HF Net Report

At 8:30 AM PST 2/14/2024 we had our HF Net.

Operators

  • Kirk Crawford – KK6KC – Lomita CA
  • Tom Fagan – K7DF – Vail AZ
  • Doug McNulty – KM4GC – Leesburg VA
  • Bob Lanahan – KK6WYW – Vero Beach FL

Observors

  • Dan Plaster
  • Jeffrey Light

20 M Band

RX/TXBobDougTomKirk
Bob5-55-05-0
Doug5-8––
Tom5-55-55-9
Kirk––5-9
14.275 MHz

17 M Band

Rx/TXDougTomKirkBob
Doug5-15-8
Tom5-85-55-7
Kirk5-7
Bob5-65-0
18.2117 MHz

10 M Band

Rx/TxKirkDougTomBob
Kirk5-9
Doug5-9
Tom
Bob
28.352 MHz
Shack

Leaky EOC Trailer

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On Monday 2/12/24 I went to the EOC Trailer in the south lot of A6 in order to retrieve the bracket for the A3 Antenna Tower. I discovered that the trailer had leaked extensively during the recent storms. The carpet is wet, there is visible drips in the ceiling and some mold. See the below pictures:

Ceiling inside the trailer with drips visible on the support bar.
I believe the white spots on the wall are mold
State of the roof on Monday. Needs repair.

On Tuesday 2/13/24 KN6OJH and I (KK6KC) were able to install a tarp with bungees that I purchased the night before with club funds. We removed all of the antennas before we put up the tarp. We will have to plan on fixing the roof once the winter is over. But this tarp should hold us till then. See the installed tarp below.

KK6KC and KN6OJH with the now tarped trailer.
HF Net

January 2024 HF Net Report

We had our first HF Net of 2024 on January 3 at 8:30 AM.

Operators

  • Kirk KK6KC Lomita CA
  • Tom K7DF Vail AZ
  • Doug KM4GC Leesburg VA

10M Band

We started at 28.940 Mhz

RX/TXKirkTomDoug
Kirk–2-2
Tom–4-4
Doug––
Rows are Receivers, Columns are Transmitters

15 Meters

On 15 (21.3 Mhz) Only Kirk could hear Doug at 2-2

17 Meters

18.149 Mhz

RX/TXKirkTomDoug
Kirk–3-2
Tom–5-5
Doug5-55-5
Rows are Receivers, Columns are Transmitters

20 Meters

We used 14.266 MHz

RX/TXKirkTomDoug
Kirk––
Tom–5-3
Doug––
Rows are Receivers, Columns are Transmitters

It seemed 17 meters was our best band for this day.

HF Net

December 2023 HF Net Report

We had our December HF Net at 8:30 AM PST to 9:00 AM on Wednesday December 6, 2023.

Attendance

  • Kirk Crawford – KK6KC – Lomita, CA
  • Tom Fagan – K7DF – Vail, AZ
  • Jeff Light – KE0ESU – Colorado Springs, CO
  • Doug McNulty – KM4GC – Leesburg, VA

20M Band

Started at 14.280 and then went to 14.240 to retest Doug’s Link. We used USB Phone.

RX\TXKirkDougTomJeff
Kirk115745
Doug––––
Tom575557
Jeff572257
Doug heard no one on 20

10M Band

We used 28.393 USB Phone

RX\TXKirkDougTomJeff
Kirk11––
Doug––52
Tom–23–
Jeff–55–
We could all hear Doug on 10M. He also tried CW and we could hear that too.
Meeting

HAM Club Show and Tell – November 2023

We had our annual show and tell meeting at 11:30 AM PST on 11/30/2023 in A3/1607A and on Teams. We had several presentations from members showing what they did in HAM radio over the past year.

Link to Meeting Recording

Here is the Link. Note: it will only work inside the Aerospace Network.

Slides from the Meeting

2023-11 Show and TellDownload

Dan Plaster’s Slides and Guitar Song

AC-30 Project 12-23 update – PlasterDownload
HF Net

January 2023 HF Net Report

We had our first HF net of the year today, Wednesday January 11, 2023 at 8:30 AM Pacific Time Participants were:

  • Kirk Crawford, KK6KC in D8 Shack, El Segundo CA
  • Jeff Wong, W0NGJ in Crossville TN
  • Doug McNulty, KM4GC in Leesburg VA
  • Bob Lanahan, KK6WYW using a web SDR located in Georgia

Phone QSO

We had good two way voice communications among all stations (Bob’s SDR is only RX) on 20 meters (14.315 MHz).

Jeff’s recording of the QSO
Bob’s recording of the QSO
Here are the three operators on the teams call
Here is what Bob’s web SDR looked like during the QSO.

JS8 Call

We switched to JS8 Call which only Doug and Kirk had working and that worked just fine. Even in Turbo Mode!

Here is a screen of JS8 Call (Kirk’s Computer) The red backed text is people contacting Kirk. You can see the waterfall at the bottom with the communication around 1400 hz.
JS8 Call uses a single frequency in each band
This is turbo mode. It uses more bandwidth ( the section around 1400 is wider) but you can send faster
Here are the bandwidths and speeds of the various modes.

It was a successful HF Net. See you next month. This year our goal is to get WinLink working over HF and add that to our HF Net.

-Kirk Crawford – KK6KC