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 conducted the February HF Net at 8:30 AM Pacific Time, March 1, 2023. In attendance were:
We only had time to try phone (voice) contacts. We tried 20M, 10M and 15M.
Here are the signal reports
| TX below – RX right | KK6KC | KM4GC | K7DF | KK6WYW |
| KK6KC | 55 | |||
| KM4GC | 00 | 57 | 48 | |
| K7DF | 57 | 00 | ||
| KK6WYW | 00 | 52-59 | 55 |
| TX below – RX right | KK6KC | KM4GC | K7DF | KK6WYW |
| KK6KC | 52 | 00 | ||
| KM4GC | 52 | 22 | 48 | |
| K7DF | 00 | 00 | ||
| KK6WYW | 00 | 22 |
| TX below – RX right | KK6KC | KM4GC | K7DF | KK6WYW |
| KK6KC | 53 | 00 | 00 | |
| KM4GC | 53 | 55 | 59 | |
| K7DF | 00 | 00 | ||
| KK6WYW | 31 | 59 | 00 |
Due to the propagation issues, it was hard to find a band/frequency that would work for all four geographic locations. It seemed that 12M would do it if we all had it available, but we did not.
Due to the antenna failure at D8, we were unable to use that station.
We had our first HF net of the year today, Wednesday January 11, 2023 at 8:30 AM Pacific Time Participants were:
We had good two way voice communications among all stations (Bob’s SDR is only RX) on 20 meters (14.315 MHz).
We switched to JS8 Call which only Doug and Kirk had working and that worked just fine. Even in Turbo Mode!
It was a successful HF Net. See you next month. This year our goal is to get WinLink working over HF and add that to our HF Net.
-Kirk Crawford – KK6KC
We had our HF Net at 8:30 AM PST today, We just used PHONE mode on 14.315 MHz upper side band.
KK6WYW was online with an SDR in Georgia and could hear both KK6KC and KM4GC. Here is a screenshot and audio recording of part of the QSO.
