We had our April HAM Club meeting on April 25, 2024 at 11:30 AM on Teams and in A3/2226 MMC
Note: Some of the slides have been edited since the meeting with the decisions we made or things we talked about.
You can find the recording here. Note: this link will only work for 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 |
On Monday 2/12/24 I went to the EOC Trailer in the south lot of A6 in order to retrieve the bracket for the A3 Antenna Tower. I discovered that the trailer had leaked extensively during the recent storms. The carpet is wet, there is visible drips in the ceiling and some mold. See the below pictures:
On Tuesday 2/13/24 KN6OJH and I (KK6KC) were able to install a tarp with bungees that I purchased the night before with club funds. We removed all of the antennas before we put up the tarp. We will have to plan on fixing the roof once the winter is over. But this tarp should hold us till then. See the installed tarp below.
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 had our annual show and tell meeting at 11:30 AM PST on 11/30/2023 in A3/1607A and on Teams. We had several presentations from members showing what they did in HAM radio over the past year.
Here is the Link. Note: it will only work inside the Aerospace Network.
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.
