Tuesday works for me, all but the third Tuesday of the month when I have a
meeting and even then usually I'd be home before it ended most likely unless
it was a short get together. No HF in the car sadly, the car's too small so
VHF only in this car.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Shaffer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: re taking it to the air
> Ok, let's get started on 40 meters. We can always branch out to echolink,
> which I'd suggest over skype, just because it's a ham radio facility.
> Also,
> I don't think there's a limit on zello rooms if anyone uses that. But how
> about some folks who hang out on 40 suggesting a frequency above 7175.
>
> At night I can likely work the country, let's say 9:00 eastern, 0100 UTC.
>
> Ok, let me throw out 7.205. That seems usually pretty clear around here.
>
> Also, how about Tuesday night. That's probably better than a weekend.
> --
> Jim KE5AL
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Ryan
> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 12:57 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: re taking it to the air
>
> John:
>
> That's the beauty of what I proposed. Us east coasters and mid westers can
> start it off at around 0:130Z and hang out then as the time and
> conditions
> change, the west coast can join in. I can copy the west coast pretty gd
> most
> nights at around 11:30 my time, which is 0:200Z.
> No obligation no nothing. Someone can just post to the list, "I'm on 7.175
> or up" and then listen, if some of us listers want to start a hang out,
> then
> off we go. I'd like to get to know some of each other on the air and bring
> a
> sense of familiarity. All the groups around on 40M, if you don't know them
> and they don't know you, there's a since of not being welcome. I think it
> would be nice for us to start something like that.
> We don't do it anymore here in NL or in the Maritimes from my knowledge
> and
> when I 1ST got my ticket, there were lots of groups that you could jump in
> and hang out with. Also, if some of us are good at multi tasking, they
> could
> jump on the echolink. LOL
> I here folks chatting all the time and emailing pics back and forth,
> browsing the net and so on.
>
> 73:
> Mike VO1AX
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