It never hurts to ask, they might be willing to move, if not, keep that 191
frequency in mind. I know when I was on the air, I ran in to that east coast
group you refer to a couple times with different nets, I think they're there
earlier until the time change, but they've been there for a long time and
aren't very likely to move, plus as I said they've been there longer if it's
the group I'm thinking of. I hope to be back on the air at some point soon
even if it's a temporary setup, I just found what appears to be antenna mast
going up the side of my porch, in a well hidden corner so I'm going to see
if I can grab a ladder, see what that actually is, supports if anything, if
it's a peace of mast as it appears to be, it looks like the radio shack mast
only a little bigger I can't think of what else it may be, I may be on the
air somewhere even if just locally soon with more to follow now that I dug
my radio stuff out of the pile of moving boxes Saturday. I have things going
on today and probably tomorrow, later this week though, I may at least be on
vhf, and/or 900 MHz with HF hopefully to follow before the ground freezes.
I'm getting excited now to be back on the air hopefully soon.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 10:38 PM
Subject: Question on frequency for future 40-meter east coast mid west
40-meter round tables
> Hi, all.
>
> For the past few weeks, we have noticed a group of hams from the south on
> 7.185 around the time of our Saturday afternoon east coast mid west
> 40-meter
> round table.
>
> Even though we have not asked them directly, they seem unwilling to, or at
> least uninterested in moving.
>
> Several saturdays ago, we moved the round table up to 7.191 MHZ with no
> problem. Yesterday, we did it on 7.1875, and some east-coast hams on a
> frequency about 1.5 KHZ above us apparently got pretty upset with what we
> were doing.
>
> I know there is not a perfect solution to the problem, but here are some
> questions for the group:
>
> 1. Should we try to preserve our 7.185 frequency, even if it means
> talking
> directly to the southern hams and maybe asking if they can change
> frequency;
> or
>
> 2. Should we seek another frequency for the round table? If so, what
> might
> that frequency be?
>
> Next Saturday's round table is a bit in question because many of us will
> be
> doing the 10-meter contest, but we probably should figure out a plan of
> action here fairly soon.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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