Weekly HF Net – Sunday 11/28/2021

[Dave, KB1JCU]

Great net this evening and good speaking with you all!

 

·        Kc1maj – Ryan – Milford, NH

·        KX1b – Brian – Goffstown, NH

·        Kc1gkj – Lee – Wilton, NH

·        Wm0G – Jack – Nashua, NH

·        Kc1pza – Brian – Nashua, NH (Welcome to the group)

·        Kb1jcu – Dave – Hollis, NH (Net control)

[Anonymous]

Great to be here!  For those who couldn’t hear me, I was running a uSDR QRP radio made in China I got off AliExpress with a new noise canceling headset. I suspect the transceiver may need the reference frequency tweaked.

I was also using a QRPGuys Portable No Tune End Fed Half Wave Antenna with the wire slung out my bedroom window. I’m located in a really poor place for radio propagation – a house in a little hollow in North Nashua. I’m surrounded by hills and I suspect there is a source of interference somewhere in my 40-50 year old house.

This is my first HF contact since my days in Civil Air Patrol back in the late 80’s (NY Wing. I was Empire 532 at the time on 2M and a field comms guy for the SAR team out of Schenectady.)  Also, by far the lowest power HF contact I’ve ever made, so there is that. The CAP radios only went down to 50W if memory serves.

My next step: Getting an SWR meter and frequency counter to tweak things. Also repositioning the antenna, perhaps with higher quality coax. That made me more clear was grounding the coax shielding on my bed frame….

73,

Brian
KC1PZA

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