The test net on Sunday was, in my humble opinion, very successful. You had very short notice – about a day. Conditions were rough, people were fading in and out. Even still, we were able to log more check-ins than we did during the previous net on 40 meters. Perhaps next time the propagation gods will bless us with better conditions. We even had a couple of guys who had never even heard of Hamesexy and hopefully they have checked out the web site since then.
Broadcasters (some of them seasonal) are kicking our *hams* on 40 meters in the evening hours. Therefore, the hamsexy.com HF net will NOT be held tonight. We will hold the net again on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 1800 UTC (1 pm Eastern, 10 am Pacific) on 14.320 MHz (+/- 10 kHz – if there is a QSO or someone calling “CQ contest…. CQ contest” on that frequency). If there is too much interference due to the ARRL contest this weekend, we may just move over to 17 meters so keep an eye on this page in case we have to make last-minute changes.
I am only one station, and as your humble net control, I cannot do this all on my own. My signal will never reach everyone, everywhere. I’m not running legal limit here. If you and I have a good signal path (you know who you are) you may be asked to relay and take check-ins. If you cannot hear me, but you hear others, please ask for someone to relay for you. This is a team effort, and so far, the HF net is off to a very good start after only 2 runs.
So there you go. Unless you don’t yet have HF, for lack of a better phrase…. BE THERE!
Good luck with that! ARRL Sweepstakes phone contest this weekend, there won’t be an unused Hz anywhere on 20M.
Well, if all else fails, we could try a PSK31 or RTTY net…
PSK would be fun. You’re going to be better off going digital this weekend. The phone portion of the non-WARC bands are going to be ugly.
Ah the fun of competing for bandwidth against the contesters. I’m up for the challenge.
In all seriousness though, if it turns out to be that crowded, I am all for moving to 17 meters for the Sunday net. We’ll start a thread on Sunday just before net time so that we can all stay on the same page as far as what frequency we’ll be on. I’ll post it here on the main page as well if we have to move due to interference.
Digital would be fun to try but for now I’d like to keep it simple in order to attract as many as possible to the net. Just about anybody with HF can talk on SSB but digital… well… I hang my head in shame as I admit I do not yet have the capability – but I’m working on it! 🙂
I believe that your not “supposed” to do a formal net on the WARC bands, but a friendly “roundtable” might work.
When I get to TX Scott, we will get you all setup on the soundcard modes. I have been doing it for 5 yrs, and its easy.
JCA