It’s that time of year again.
Members are reminded that 2017 dues (still $25 a year) are due and payable now.
You can pay online at this page: https://w1sye.org/?page_id=602
It’s that time of year again.
Members are reminded that 2017 dues (still $25 a year) are due and payable now.
You can pay online at this page: https://w1sye.org/?page_id=602
Dave Brown, KC1AAA, was nice enough to be our photographer for Monday’s Christmas party, and his photo book has been uploaded to our website. You can view it by clicking here.
Details here: https://w1sye.org/?page_id=2946
This replaces our regular December meeting.
NCRC members and some other fine folks from far away joined us between 19:30 and 20:30 Local time on 3.9 MHz. This is the second week we’ve tried this and various folks from the East and West Bay checked in. Just like last week, signals that were S5 to S7 at 19:30 dropped entirely into the mud by 20:00, so the consensus was to move the net to 19:30 hours.
John, WA1ABI, shared a link to a real-time F2 Layer map, which showed that the F2 frequency dropped from about 5 MHz at 19:30 to 4 MHz at 20:00. So the assumption would be that everyone except Willy is mostly relying on NVIS signal propagation.
Folks that joined the net were:
KC1SD – Jim (NH)
W1LY – Willy (RI)
W1DEC – Dave (RI)
WA1ABI – John (RI)
W1LAB – Pete (RI)
N1PSX – Paul (RI)
NJ3K – Bruce (PA)
WD8ORB – Seth (OH)
N7SKI – John (MT)
Several members of NCRC have expressed interest in establishing an 80-meter SSB net. David Cain, W1DEC, did some scouting for us and observed that 3900 KHz is usually clear around 20:00L, and that was the case on Wed Nov 23, when we had our first get together. Members who participated were:
Willy’s signal seemed to hold up the best, with a mostly vertical oriented antenna and a solid KW of output power. It was interesting to hear other stations and their relative strength compared to some of our own local stations — HF propagation is always fun!
Jim Kyle is hearing signals about 40 dB lower than the same time last night, which might support the thought that skywave propagation is not the same as last night.