Author: Jeff Crawford

Ended up spending more time on this event than first envisioned. Did only CW, managing 1,252 QSOs. 40m was the “money band”. My attempts to “open-up” 10 & 15 m were ineffective as the numbers show.

Had a good turn-out for this evening’s 75m SSB net. Check-ins included:

• K8SYH Bill
• W5ODJ John
• KE4S Dave
• N4CF Mike
• KG4UPR/m Brian
• W4PMP Chris
• K3WD Bill
• W0MPM John
• N3NL Al
• K0ZR Jeff (NCS)

Most of the discussion during the net centered around the upcoming Field Day weekend and people’s plans for operation. A large percentage of the check-ins plan to do some operating during the event which commences this Saturday at 1 PM EDT.

Signals were just average this evening; all stations were Q5 or better.

Only KE4S migrated to ten meters for further conversation.

Hope all is well with all our members (as well as others…..)

Jeff, K0ZR, NCS this week

John, W5ODJ, thanks for sharing your thoughts on Field Days past. Yes, we certainly “did it big” and many of us have “big memories” of those times now in the history books. It was truly inspiring to see people, some whom you had not seen in some time, “show up” and we would together put all those antennas and radios on the air. It was certainly something to be proud of and feel good about. I do hope sometime again in the future those “fires of RF enthusiasm” can be rekindled and we do it again.

Jeff, K0ZR

Thursday, April 30th, was a great net on 75m. Conditions were very favorable with nice low levels of noise. Those checking in included:

N4PD, KE4S, KG4UPR/m Delaware, W5ODJ, K8SYH, K9JRK (Joe of Columbus OH), KJ4VTH, and K3WD

Discussion about favorable conditions and upcoming operating events this weekend, i.e. 4 QSO party type events and a 10-10 contest on CW. Also updates on N4PD’s tower as well as progress being made by KE4S in getting his Steppir back on his tower and fully functional.

The 75m session closed near 8:30 pm and the 10m session ended at 8:40 PM.

W5ODJ and N4PD checked in on 28.405

K0ZR, Jeff, NCS for this week

Good net was enjoyed by those who checked in Thursday evening. Check ins included:
KE4S
N4CF
K8SYH
K3WD
N1ESD
N4PD
KC3ANS
KD2DKB

Multiple threads of discussion included participation in the just completed ARRL SSB contest last weekend, CWTs of late, and some antenna comments.

Only stations on 10m included myself and N4PD.

Nets concluded at 0040.

NCS for this week, Jeff, K0ZR

The Nov 16th meeting files and ARISS presentation have been uploaded to the members area for those unable to attend yesterday.

The Newsletter for November is now in the Members Only area. The newsletter can be found here.

The October newsletter is now in the Members’ area. This can be found here.

The LARG September Newsletter has been posted to the K4LRG web site. There are quite a number of items discussed, most of which will be further reviewed at the September meeting on Saturday the 21st.

Only had a few check-ins tonight, however conditions were very favorable. K0ZR was NCS, followed by 75m checkins:

K3WD
K8SYH
W0MPM

10m checkins included only K0ZR and W0MPM

Jeff, K0ZR