East coast/midwest roundtable 2100 Z or 4 P.M. Eastern on or near 7.195 
MHZ Saturday afternoons.

Cross-country blind ops net--2100 Z or 4 p.m. Eastern on or near 14.258 MHZ 
Sunday afternoons.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Thurman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: Late Saturday Afternoon Midwest/East coast Roundtable?????


what is he frequency and time and stuff for the cross country net  noone =
ever seems to mention it and I've been reading for months til I got =
tired of the thread lol  might be a good idea to post that info at the =
top of the messages fr necomers

73 kb7nla

On Jan 18, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Junior Lolley wrote:

> Tom, being down here in the south as about as far as you can get =
without
> hitting water I will take a listen from here.
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> Junior Lolley KG4itd
> Liberty County E. C.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators =
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> 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?????
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> Hi, folks.
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> Well, as some of you know, I've been toying around with the idea of =
starting
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> a midwest/east coast roundtable.  This is being proposed  so that some =
of us
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> who can't hear each other normally on the regular Sunday afternoon=20
> Crosscountry Blind Ops net, will be able to talk with each other on =
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> in another way.
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> What I'm proposing here is a lower sideband roundtable on 40 meters at =
2100Z
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> on Saturday afternoon.  For those of you who are a bit rusty on time=20=

> calculations, that would be 4 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Central, etc..  I =
thought
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> it'd be easiest to stick with the 2100Z time, since this is what we =
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> used to for the Sunday afternoon cross-country blind ops net.  I would =
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> that, at 2100Z, there may still be some relatively short skip on 40 =
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> from the mid west to the east coast, and that the band may lenghten =
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> enough to give us even longer workable distances.
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> We will need to find a frequency, and I'm thinking of something like =
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> MHZ.  This would be well above the new 7.175 lower limit for ssb =
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> for General class licensees, If memory serves me correctly.  It also =
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> be below those pesky foreign broadcast stations.
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> It might be helpful for someone to do some checking, just to be sure =
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> the 7.195 MHZ frequency is not occupied by some sort of regular net at =
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> time.
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> Let me know your thoughts.  I'm open to any suggestions.
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> I'd like to take a shot at the roundtable this coming Saturday: =
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> 22nd, if that would work for others.
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> Could be lots of fun.
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> P.S. In calling this a midwest east coast roundtable, I, in no way, =
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> imply that this is limited to those in certain regions of the country. =
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> fact, nothing would please or excite me more than to have a good=20
> long-distance contact with someone from the other side of the =
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> Again, like the Sunday afternoon 2-meter cross-country blind ops net,=20=

> everyone is welcome!
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> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, MI