I may not be ther right at 2100Z, but will try and get on the net when I get
back home. More likely on January 29. I look forward to trying this.
73,
Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, Maryland
Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of tom behler
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:48 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Late Saturday Afternoon Midwest/East coast Roundtable?????
>
> Hi, folks.
>
> Well, as some of you know, I've been toying around with the idea of
> starting
> a midwest/east coast roundtable. This is being proposed so that some of
> us
> who can't hear each other normally on the regular Sunday afternoon
> Crosscountry Blind Ops net, will be able to talk with each other on the
> air
> in another way.
>
> What I'm proposing here is a lower sideband roundtable on 40 meters at
> 2100Z
> on Saturday afternoon. For those of you who are a bit rusty on time
> calculations, that would be 4 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Central, etc.. I
> thought
> it'd be easiest to stick with the 2100Z time, since this is what we all
> are
> used to for the Sunday afternoon cross-country blind ops net. I would
> think
> that, at 2100Z, there may still be some relatively short skip on 40 meters
> from the mid west to the east coast, and that the band may lenghten out
> enough to give us even longer workable distances.
>
> We will need to find a frequency, and I'm thinking of something like 7.195
> MHZ. This would be well above the new 7.175 lower limit for ssb operation
> for General class licensees, If memory serves me correctly. It also would
> be below those pesky foreign broadcast stations.
>
> It might be helpful for someone to do some checking, just to be sure that
> the 7.195 MHZ frequency is not occupied by some sort of regular net at
> that
> time.
>
> Let me know your thoughts. I'm open to any suggestions.
>
> I'd like to take a shot at the roundtable this coming Saturday: January
> 22nd, if that would work for others.
>
> Could be lots of fun.
>
> P.S. In calling this a midwest east coast roundtable, I, in no way, want
> to
> imply that this is limited to those in certain regions of the country. In
> fact, nothing would please or excite me more than to have a good
> long-distance contact with someone from the other side of the country!!!
> Again, like the Sunday afternoon 2-meter cross-country blind ops net,
> everyone is welcome!
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, MI
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