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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!

VarAC HF Chat Reinvented – February 2024 Mtg

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.

Kirk’s Slides

Doug and Bob’s Slides

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VarAC Slides

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Recording of the Meeting

Recording is here available to Aerospace Employees

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
Kirk5-9
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

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

2022-12 HF Net

We had our HF Net at 8:30 AM PST today, We just used PHONE mode on 14.315 MHz upper side band.

  • KK6KC was in El Segundo at the D8 Shack 1800 Watts
  • KM4GC was in Titusville FL campground with his portable setup 100 Watts
  • KN6RNB was in El Segundo with her end fed antenna at home 100 Watts
  • KN6OJH was in El Segundo observing the net

Results

  • KK6KC could hear KN6RNB with a 5-6 report
  • KK6KC could hear KM4GC with a 5-7 report
  • KM4GC could hear KK6KC with a 5-9 report

Recording

KK6WYW was online with an SDR in Georgia and could hear both KK6KC and KM4GC. Here is a screenshot and audio recording of part of the QSO.

Screenshot of WebSDR
Audio captured from the Web SDR