The October newsletter is now in the Members’ area. This can be found here.
2m Net Report for October 13, 2019
This is the post-net report for the most famous Sunday Night Net held by the Loudoun Amateur Radio Group on 2-Meters FM. Tonight the net was held on the 146.700 MHz (-) (No tone ) at 8:30 PM sharp. KN4AWT (Jim) was NCS for the evening.
Those who checked in were:
- KN4AWT – Jim (NCS)
- KC5CG – Gump
- N2CV – Al*
- KN4YOV – John*
- N4PD – Paul
- WA4TXE – Dave
* Signifies that the station was unintelligible or couldn’t be heard after checkin.
Conditions on the WA4TXE repeater were challenging. Only those within the Leesburg, VA area where able to be heard reliably by NCS. Dave, the owner of the repeater, was monitoring on the control line and explained that he is aware of the issues and needs to go onsite to make adjustments to the antenna connection. The net was closed at 8:49 PM.
LARG 40M Digital Watering Hole
There was a very informal digital net tonight on 40 meters at 7.07325 Mhz. Myself, W5ODJ, and John, W0MPM, had a nice chat on a very quiet band tonight. We started a little late at 19:33 local time and ended about 20:05.
John was loud and clear at my QTH with a SNR at or above 25dB the entire conversation with 100% copy.
Hope to see you on a digital net soon.
73,
John
W5ODJ
Thursday SSB Net Report 10 OCT 2019
80m – 3670 KHz on 11 OCT 2019 Open 0000Z
Listening 3815 KHz for General class ops to check-in
QNI:
K3WD Bill
KE4S Dave, net control
Called the net on 3670 to be clear of traffic just above our normal frequency. Signals good, but some QRN as background at S7. We talked a bit about the weather in the west, and about our antenna work. My tower is likely to be back in service in the next couple of days, so I should have it ready before winter storms arrive. This net is open for anyone to check in – please join us every Thursday at 8:00PM.
Closed 0015Z
10m – on 28.405 MHz
No net tonight. My wire antennas do not tune 10 meters, and nobody picked it up.
73 de Dave KE4S
Tuesday night CW Net
Every Tuesday evening from 8:00 PM to 8:30 PM we get together on ±3.545 MHz for a local CW net.
We always say “All are welcomed and the net will slow to the most comfortable speed of all operators”. Well, guess who that was tonight? That’s right, me! My CW blows but I keep working at it!
And … I took up NCS duties because no one else called the net. Silly me.
In spite of my poor CW skills I was able to hold the net and copy 90% of what was said tonight. Normally I use my computer to help me but it busted tonight too so I was running solo for most of this. My hand keying is not too great but I managed. Hopefully others understood what I was trying to say.
My lack of skill didn’t keep the net from happening. These folks checked in tonight:
- KE4S, Dave
- K3WD, Bill
- KT9N, Chris
- W5ODJ, John (NCS)
Y’all have a great week!
73,
John
W5ODJ
LARG/ARISS/LCPS/FSMS – A/V & Streaming Design
LARG/ARISS/LCPS/FSMS – Test Setup v2
Steve (KS1G), Paulson (KG4TIH), Dave D, and Parker met early in the morning of Saturday, Oct 5th to setup all of the radio and A/V gear for the Farmwell Middle School Amateur Radio International Space Station contact occurring during the last week of October.
The setup shown below is a full radio, antenna, audio (radio operation, question students, and video computer), video, and streaming system.
LARG/ARISS/LCPS/FSMS – Test Setup v1
Steve (KS1G), Paulson (KG4TIH), and Jeff (K0ZR) met early in the morning of Saturday, Sept 14th to setup all of the radio and A/V gear for the Farmwell Middle School Amateur Radio International Space Station contact occurring during the last week of October.
Thursday HF SSB Net Report 3Oct2019
80m – 3675 KHz on 4 OCT 2019 Open 0000Z
Listening 3816 KHz for General class ops to check-in
QNI:
K3WD Bill
W0MPM John
KE4S Dave, net control
Closed 0017Z
10m – on 28.405 MHz
No net tonight. My antenna does not tune 10 meters, and nobody picked it up.
Thursday HF SSB Net Report 26SEP2019
80m – 3675 KHz on 27 SEP 2019 Open 0000Z
Listening 3831 KHz for General class ops to check-in
QNI:
K8SYH Bill
W5ODJ John
KE4S Dave, net control
Since this is the prime season for antenna work, we took a couple rounds to discuss the progress on our individual projects. We are all hoping to finish the projects soon to be ready for the Fall and Winter seasons.
Closed 0017Z
10m – on 28.405 MHz
No net tonight. My antenna does not tune 10 meters, and nobody picked it up.