I'll try to be there Tom.
Thanks.
Pat, K9JAUAt 05:48 PM 1/18/2011, you wrote:
>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