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:
| El Segundo hears Doug | Frequency (MHz) or Band (M) | Doug hears El Segundo |
| – | 10M | – |
| 5-3 | 12 M 24.950 MHz | 5-5 |
| 3-1 | 15 M 21.319 MHz | 3-1 |
| 2-1 | 17 M 18.115 MHz | – |
| – | 20 M 14.164 MHz | – |
We had our December HF Net at 8:30 AM PST on Wednesday December 4. Operators were:
| RX/TX | Kirk | Bob | Al | Doug |
| Kirk | – | – | 1-1 | 1-1 |
| Bob | 1-1 | – | 2-6 | 3-3 |
| Al | – | 5-5 | – | 3-3 |
| Doug | – | 5-7 | – | – |
| RX/TX | Kirk | Bob | Al | Doug |
| Kirk | – | – | – | 5-5 |
| Bob | – | – | – | – |
| Al | – | – | – | – |
| Doug | 5-9 | – | – | – |
| RX/TX | Kirk | Bob | Al | Doug |
| Kirk | – | – | 2-1 | 5-5 |
| Bob | – | – | – | – |
| Al | 3-3 | – | – | 3-3 |
| Doug | 5-3 | – | – | – |
See this table for the definition of our signal reports.
On November 21 at 11:30 AM we had our annual show and tell meeting by ham Club members. We had several presenters. Here is the info:
Go here to see the recording. (Only within Aerospace Networks)
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 | – | – | – |
| RX/TX | Kirk | Doug | Bob |
| Kirk | – | 5-3 | 3-4 |
| Doug | – | – | 5-9 |
| Bob | 2-4 | – | – |
| RX/TX | Kirk | Doug | Bob |
| Kirk | – | 5-4 | – |
| Doug | 5-7 | – | |
| Bob | – | – |
| RX/TX | Kirk | Doug | Bob |
| Kirk | – | 5-8 | – |
| Doug | 5-3 | – | |
| Bob | – | – |
| RX/TX | Doug | Bob |
| Doug | – | 5-2 to 5-7 |
| Bob | 5-2 to 5-7 | – |
So we had workable coast to coast communication on multiple bands. The propagation was rapidly changing during the contacts. See you next month!
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.
Recording is here available to Aerospace Employees
At 8:30 AM PST 2/14/2024 we had our HF Net.
| RX/TX | Bob | Doug | Tom | Kirk |
| Bob | 5-5 | 5-0 | 5-0 | |
| Doug | 5-8 | – | – | |
| Tom | 5-5 | 5-5 | 5-9 | |
| Kirk | – | – | 5-9 |
| Rx/TX | Doug | Tom | Kirk | Bob |
| Doug | 5-1 | 5-8 | ||
| Tom | 5-8 | 5-5 | 5-7 | |
| Kirk | 5-7 | |||
| Bob | 5-6 | 5-0 |
| Rx/Tx | Kirk | Doug | Tom | Bob |
| Kirk | 5-9 | |||
| Doug | 5-9 | |||
| Tom | ||||
| Bob |
We had our first HF net of the year today, Wednesday January 11, 2023 at 8:30 AM Pacific Time Participants were:
We had good two way voice communications among all stations (Bob’s SDR is only RX) on 20 meters (14.315 MHz).
We switched to JS8 Call which only Doug and Kirk had working and that worked just fine. Even in Turbo Mode!
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
We had our HF Net at 8:30 AM PST today, We just used PHONE mode on 14.315 MHz upper side band.
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.
