Called the net at 8:00PM with K3WD checking in. His signal was barely readable, so with no further checkins, I closed the net. Please join us next week on our normal schedule. 73 de Dave KE4S
ARISS Station – Antenna Setup
After yesterday’s very soggy delivery of all the gear to the school, today began setup. The Ashburn Fire Station had to respond to a call, so their tower truck was delayed. To make progress, a bunch of us relayed all the items that would fit through the hatch and carried them to the antenna site above the auditorium. We pulled the antenna base (oof!) and 2M antenna with rope. The the tower truck arrived and made quick work of getting the ballast for the antenna base (several hundred pounds of concrete blocks) onto the roof. THANK YOU ASHBURN STATION FD.
We quickly assembled the antenna, mast, base, and supporting electronics and cables and just managed to get everything together before sundown. The results are very satisfying:
Thursday, we complete set-up and be ready for rehearsal with the faculty and students that afternoon after school.
THANK YOU to everyone who helped with set-up today!
73 de KS1G
Thursday SSB Net Report Oct 17 2019
80m – 3675 KHz on 18 OCT 2019 Open 0000Z
Listening 3813 KHz for General class ops to check-in
QNI:
W0MPM John
W5ODJ John
KE4S Dave, net control
We discussed our current progress on antenna projects, software upgrades, and vagaries of telecom company provisioning and billing. We closed at 0032Z.
Please join us next week or any Thursday at 8:00PM.
73 de Dave KE4S
October Newsletter Published
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
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.
2 Meter Net 9/22/2019
Net started at regular time and ended at 20:54. We had 9 check-ins and are followed.
AK2M Kevin
KM4BBC Chuck
N4PDY Mike
N4FAF Jim
W0MPM John
W0DZL Kevin
KQ4CI Evan
KK4TNO Chaz
N0JSD John (NCS and NM)
Have a great night everybody.
73 de N0JSD