Tough band tonight.. I tried. de WA5LEE
KC0ZDB from Area 12, I could only hear two station and never did hear net control.
73’ s
Dick
KC0ZDB
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Same here. I faintly heard the Net Control and couldn’t make out what was said.
Patrick W0PCW
District 14
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Anyone else missed before I send revised check in listing?
De WA5LEE
WD5H
Sid - WD5H
I could hear NC’s voice but couldn’t tell what was being said. Too much noise. Sheree KF5LMJ
At my location in Houston I could only hear some of the stations in north Texas. Net control was never heard. Also I did not hear any relay stations. I finally turned the rig off after about 17 minutes. I hope the propagation improves.
Similar difficulties occurred during the Texas Traffic net. I had to use a relay station to get checked in.
–George Fletcher, AD5CQ
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KF5ZHW, district 12, kept trying to raise anyone. Could only hear net control occasionally. The last several times I have had trouble copying net control. In the past didn’t have this problem and don’t have this problem on other nets. A relay system needs to be setup at start of net and relays need to be called on at a regular basis to keep everyone informed.
Lloyd Swartz
KF5ZHW
Anyone else missed before I send revised check in listing?
De WA5LEE
Anyone else missed before I send revised check in listing?
De WA5LEE
George,
I appreciate your criticism. I have a 100’ tower with a Mosley 67B PRO and 2 offset full-wave 3000W Buckmaster off center fed dipoles at over 40’ above ground. I not only was listening on all 3 antennas, but I had 2 SDR radio’s in my audio stream. One from Nevada and one from Utah. I also had 2 people in my ZOOM channel listening to THEIR rigs and other SDR radios in Northern Texas and Mississippi. I was running an ICOM 7851 at over 1000W on the linear.
I did my best to enter in all the callsigns I heard, along with 3 relays who didn’t hear much of anything either.
Perhaps it was just a bad band day for stations less than 500 miles away from each other. Like it has been for several weeks now, at that time of night, on that frequency.
Either way, I am sorry that my rig did not copy your station, which I am sure is a most excellent setup. I will do a further examination of my system in the future to be a better Net Control Operator.
'73 (Best Wishes, for non-Hams)
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WA5LEE (Previously KC3LEE)
**Lee Glassman, ARRL VE, COM-T, NREMT #**E3525310
Tomball, Texas
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It could be me, I am up on a hill about 250 feet above the plain about 10 miles SE of the Alamo. I’m in an HOA so my antenna runs along the roof to the back fence with a counterpoise wire running from the front yard to the back fence buried about an inch in the ground, I have three grounds connected together. My very first contact was Hawaii. Its been up 10 years so it probably is going to need a replacement. I have an Icom 7300.
I had a very good friend at Roswell, NM that climbed a 100’ tower and had a heart attack and fell all the way, so please be careful about climbing please.
Your rig is super good and I think when sunspots return you should do a lot better.
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