For the last year or so, I’ve been the net control station for our club’s 2-meter net, which takes place on Monday evenings at 8 pm Eastern time on our club repeater on 146.96 MHz. Lately, we’ve had a couple of youngsters check in. Last week, one of them had his sister check in (well, say hi, at least).
We’ve had a great turnout, too. On November 14, we had 17 check-ins, and on November 21, we had 22 check-ins.
Working the DXpeditions
All three were new countries for me, and I worked all of them on 30 meter CW. In addition, I worked 5V7RU on 40 meter CW.
I’m not a big DXer, but it is fun to work them when you can. For a list of current and upcoming DXpeditions, see NG3K’s Announced DX Operations.
30 meter propagation
Speaking of 30 meters, propagation was kind of rough this evening. I headed over there because the CQWW CW contest is on this weekend, so using 40 meters or 80 meters was out of the question, unless I wanted to participate in the contest. I did manage to eke out on QSO, but the signals were so weak that we couldn’t really continue past the first exchange. So much for the WARC bands (30 meters, 17 meters, and 12 meters) being alternatives during contest weekends.
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