Only problem I have is another sched at that time on both Saturday and 
Sunday.  That's why I haven't been making the 20 meter nets.  But I'll try 
to skip out of there quickly and head over to 40 meters.  Should be fun. 
Lou  WA3MIX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tom behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:48 PM
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