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.
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!
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:
| 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 | – |
| RX/TX | Tom | Kirk | Doug | Stephanie |
| Tom | – | 5-9 | ||
| Kirk | 2-4 | – | 5-9 | |
| Doug | 5-9 | 3-2 | – | |
| Stephanie | 5-9 | – |
Our August HF Net occurred on Wednesday August 14 at 8:30 AM Pacific Time. We had the following operators in attendance:
KK6KC – A3 Shack
KN6RNB – El Segundo
KM4GC – Michigan
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 |
| RX/TX | Doug | Kirk | Stephanie |
| Doug | 5-7 | ||
| Kirk | 2-3 | 5-7 | |
| Stephanie | 5-9 |
Tom had to leave the meeting after we did 20 meters.
73 until next month! – Kirk KK6KC
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 2024 on January 3 at 8:30 AM.
We started at 28.940 Mhz
| RX/TX | Kirk | Tom | Doug |
| Kirk | – | 2-2 | |
| Tom | – | 4-4 | |
| Doug | – | – |
On 15 (21.3 Mhz) Only Kirk could hear Doug at 2-2
18.149 Mhz
| RX/TX | Kirk | Tom | Doug |
| Kirk | – | 3-2 | |
| Tom | – | 5-5 | |
| Doug | 5-5 | 5-5 |
We used 14.266 MHz
| RX/TX | Kirk | Tom | Doug |
| Kirk | – | – | |
| Tom | – | 5-3 | |
| Doug | – | – |
It seemed 17 meters was our best band for this day.
We had our December HF Net at 8:30 AM PST to 9:00 AM on Wednesday December 6, 2023.
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 |
We used 28.393 USB Phone
| RX\TX | Kirk | Doug | Tom | Jeff |
| Kirk | 11 | – | – | |
| Doug | – | – | 52 | |
| Tom | – | 23 | – | |
| Jeff | – | 55 | – |
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.
Here is the Link. Note: it will only work inside the Aerospace Network.
