20m Slow CW Net

[Fred Kemmerer]

Mike,
Layne,
Dennis,

Thanks again for all of your help with our Slow Net. As we discussed, lets plan on doing our slow net next week on 20m. This will give folks who don’t have an antenna for 80m a chance. It will also be quieter as there should be much less noise on 20m. I’d like to include this in our update for the club on Tuesday including a rough idea a frequency on 20m which we will use. I am thinking something like 14.052 MHz would be a good place. What do you think?

73,

[Bernard Biron]

Sounds good to me Fred. Look forward to it.

[Nashua Area Radio Society]

Band should be basically dead … 14052 kHz sounds good

[Fred Kemmerer]

Band is dead to Techs and Novices, too.

[Nashua Area Radio Society]

•80M = 3.525-3.600 MHz: CW Only, 200W max
•40M = 7.025-7.125 MHz : CW Only, 200W max
•20M = NONE
•15M = 21.025-21.200 MHz: CW Only, 200W max
•10M = 28.000-28.300 MHz: CW Only, 200W max
•10M = 28.300-28.500 MHz: CW, Phone, 200W max

[Nashua Area Radio Society]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that the chart above ONLY applies to Novice and Technician Licenses. I’ll relist the allocations again in case someone wants to print a copy for quick reference.

Novice & Tech CW ONLY HF Privileges

•80M = 3.525-3.600 MHz: CW Only, 200W max
•40M = 7.025-7.125 MHz : CW Only, 200W max
•20M = NONE
•15M = 21.025-21.200 MHz: CW Only, 200W max
•10M = 28.000-28.300 MHz: CW Only, 200W max
•10M = 28.300-28.500 MHz: CW, Phone, 200W max

also see: http://www.arrl.org/graphical-frequency-allocations

[Fred Kemmerer]

Just a note. If the person who started this topic meant that this slow net was just for those mentioned, then my reply wasn’t applicable.

[Nashua Area Radio Society]

This is my first posting so hopefully I did it OK…

Would it be possible to let other club members know on the website that a particular ham radio operator is listening to a particular frequency?  Lets say that you have the option of contacting that individual online prior to a CW QSO you could then talk about WPM spacing etc. and then try to have a QSO without the adrenaline freak out moment?  I don’t always know when I can get on the air so it would be nice as a newbie to talk to other newbies or experienced operators that have the patience to work with my lack of skill.

Thanks,

Mike AB1YK

[Nashua Area Radio Society]

Mike,

Fred – AB1OC has setup a conference call that you can call into… this was posted on this forum about two weeks back and you can find it under the topic:

CW Slow Net Webex Information-

We have dropped the Webex ONLINE feature and just use the voice call-in line.

We meet on Monday and Thursday at 8PM Local time… Presently using 14.052 Mhz for the on the air practice QSOs.

Please call in on the phone line using the dial in credentials provided in the Webex message. We’re flexible and hope to help folks learn and improve their skills.

I also have some CDs with the K7QO code material we used as a study guide. Please contact me and I can get a copy of one to you. Just send me an email at [email protected] and let me know how to reach you.

Welcome aboard the slow CW net.

Mike

[Nashua Area Radio Society]

Monday 10/10 and nobody checked in on the air or on the webex phone line. Fred had contacted me to let me know he was not going to be able to join this evening. I decided after calling CQ for 20 minutes to pull the plug for today.

Hopefully, some of our group will have a chance to join us again on Thursday evening.

Mike

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