John and all:

I guess that summarizes my thinking as well.  I'd say let's keep the round 
table on 7.185 at 4 p.m. Eastern on Saturday afternoons, and try to limp our 
way through the summer.  However, if someone else wants to try something 
else just to see what might work better on a temporary or back-up basis, I'd 
say "go for it!".

It's always fun to try new things!

In my view, that is what this hobby is all about.

73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: Revisiting Moving the 40 Meter Net to Evening


I'll throw this in, the first region NTS net, cycle 2, in the afternoon on
phone, normally meets on 75 meters. 75 meters has been difficult on it's
best days impossible the rest for those nets lately. We came up with a 40
meter backup frequency. A couple guys wanted to just move it to 40 meters
until further notice and I wasn't too keen on that idea, because 75 does
work most of the year it's just a couple months out of the year we struggle.
On top of that, 40 is very tough for those of us close together around those
times most of the year too. Then, a couple times the last 2 weeks, we moved
to the alternate frequency because we could tell someone was there on 75 but
that was it and thought 40 would be better. that's where it all fell apart
because that was even worse. It's been better for the last month and a half
now, but a couple times in the last 2 weeks now it didn't work. So, we'll
stay as we were, 75 meter primary, 40 meter backup if it may work. Point
being, it's nice to have an alternate if you can find one that works, but
don't change it because you'll only run in to a new set of issues. That
being said, there's nothing wrong with a few people saying that since the
usual net or get together didn't work out someone can't get a group together
somewhere else some other time.