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December 2024 HF Net Report

12/04/2024 kirkcrawford Leave a comment

We had our December HF Net at 8:30 AM PST on Wednesday December 4. Operators were:

Kirk Crawford – KK6KC – A3 Shack
Bob Lanahan – KK6WYW – Vero Beach FL
Doug McNulty – KM4GC – Leesburg VA
Al Carlson – NA1N – Laytonsville MD

Reports

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	–	–

14.234 MHz

RX/TX	Kirk	Bob	Al	Doug
Kirk	–	–	–	5-5
Bob	–	–	–	–
Al	–	–	–	–
Doug	5-9	–	–	–

28.412MHz

RX/TX	Kirk	Bob	Al	Doug
Kirk	–	–	2-1	5-5
Bob	–	–	–	–
Al	3-3	–	–	3-3
Doug	5-3	–	–	–

24.947 MHz

See this table for the definition of our signal reports.

HF Net

November 2024 HF Net

11/06/2024 kirkcrawford

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!

HF Net

September HF Net

09/04/2024 kirkcrawford

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/TX	Tom	Kirk	Doug	Stephanie
Tom	–	5-5	5-7
Kirk	3-5	–	2-5	5-9
Doug	5-7	5-3	–
Stephanie		5-6		–

14.312

15M – 21.346 MHz

RX/TX	Tom	Kirk	Doug	Stephanie
Tom	–		5-9
Kirk	2-4	–		5-9
Doug	5-9	3-2	–
Stephanie		5-9		–

21.346

HF Net

August 2024 HF Net

08/14/2024 kirkcrawford

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/TX	Doug	Kirk	Tom	Stephanie
Doug		3-3
Kirk			2-1	5-9
Tom
Stephanie		5-5

20 meters (14.261 MHz)

RX/TX	Doug	Kirk	Stephanie
Doug		5-7
Kirk	2-3		5-7
Stephanie		5-9

15 meters (21.276 MHz)

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

73 until next month! – Kirk KK6KC

Antenna, HF Net, Meeting, Shack

VarAC HF Chat Reinvented – February 2024 Mtg

03/01/2024 kirkcrawford

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

VarAC Slides

Recording of the Meeting

Recording is here available to Aerospace Employees

HF Net

February 2024 HF Net Report

02/14/2024 kirkcrawford

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/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

14.275 MHz

17 M Band

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

18.2117 MHz

10 M Band

Rx/Tx	Kirk	Doug	Tom	Bob
Kirk		5-9
Doug	5-9
Tom
Bob

28.352 MHz

HF Net

January 2024 HF Net Report

01/05/2024 kirkcrawford

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/TX	Kirk	Tom	Doug
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/TX	Kirk	Tom	Doug
Kirk		–	3-2
Tom	–		5-5
Doug	5-5	5-5

Rows are Receivers, Columns are Transmitters

20 Meters

We used 14.266 MHz

RX/TX	Kirk	Tom	Doug
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

12/06/2023 kirkcrawford

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\TX	Kirk	Doug	Tom	Jeff
Kirk		11	57	45
Doug	–	–	–	–
Tom	57	55		57
Jeff	57	22	57

Doug heard no one on 20

10M Band

We used 28.393 USB Phone

RX\TX	Kirk	Doug	Tom	Jeff
Kirk		11	–	–
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

12/01/2023 kirkcrawford

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.