Last night was routine; I QNR Rockford from K8ED and NCS K8LJG QNX me. Then just as I was reaching for the power switch (yawn), VE1AQF TCC QNI (on a bug; classic) QTC Howell. So I sent DTT QSP. John sent us up 6 and it was a NX9K so I BK HAVE TEXT like K8ED taught me. He sent R NAME GLENN 73. I sent NAME MIKE 73. I was glad to help a TCC op clear his traffic; QMN means business. The NX9K was dated FEB 7 so it was less than 3 hours old. I looked up Glenn on QRZ and he's in Nova Scotia.?
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Hi Tom,?
This is great publicity and recognition of our QMN. Many of us have a lot of our lives invested in QMN and it was great to read the article that was published in the NTS Letter.
One of our own QMN’ers (WV0SS) is part of the Branch County ARC and is extremely creative with designing all sorts of certificates for our club and beyond. If we need someone to design and print certificates, I am certain that I can convince him to help us. And I am sure that the cost for the certs would be very reasonable. All we would need to get started would be to give him some graphics (where they exist) or tell him what your vision is and he will interpret and provide choices.
They could be ‘ordered’ custom made with the recipient’s name pre-printed or they can be ‘generic’ certs (generic by category) that can be filled in prior to distribution.
The signature(s) on the certificates can be added to the master copies which will reduce the effort to sign a bunch of certificates.
It appears that we have an answer to part of the financial issues and, if needed, I am pretty sure that most would be willing to help cover postage.
If any of this interests interests you, give me a call on the phone and we can kick around some ideas.?
73,
LC WB8R
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On Feb 4, 2025, at 4:06?PM, K8LJG via groups.io <k8ljg@...> wrote:
? Tom, ? ?We(QMN) have $400. Dollars in our account yet. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?John, K8LJG? On Feb 4, 2025, at 2:40?PM, Tom Hammond W8MK <thammond@...> wrote:
? Greetings,
The QMN 90th Anniversary was highlighted in the February 2025 edition of the NTS Letter, published by the ARRL.?
I’d like to ask the regular participants how they feel about creating an on-air campaign or award program around our 90th anniversary. Here’s some food for thought? - award/certificate for 90 QNI into a QMN session (early, late, both, either) in 2025 - award/certificate for receiving and relaying or delivering 90 radiograms on QMN in 2025 - award/certificate for being NCS 90 times in 2025 - award/certificate to acknowledge a single QNI during our 90th anniversary (to attract new QNI)
Thoughts on how to pay for said awards/certificates?
Thoughts on how to publicize such an event throughout the year?
I’m open to suggestions!?
See you on QMN!
Tom W8MK
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Tom, ? ?We(QMN) have $400. Dollars in our account yet. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?John, K8LJG?
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On Feb 4, 2025, at 2:40?PM, Tom Hammond W8MK <thammond@...> wrote:
? Greetings,
The QMN 90th Anniversary was highlighted in the February 2025 edition of the NTS Letter, published by the ARRL.?
I’d like to ask the regular participants how they feel about creating an on-air campaign or award program around our 90th anniversary. Here’s some food for thought? - award/certificate for 90 QNI into a QMN session (early, late, both, either) in 2025 - award/certificate for receiving and relaying or delivering 90 radiograms on QMN in 2025 - award/certificate for being NCS 90 times in 2025 - award/certificate to acknowledge a single QNI during our 90th anniversary (to attract new QNI)
Thoughts on how to pay for said awards/certificates?
Thoughts on how to publicize such an event throughout the year?
I’m open to suggestions!?
See you on QMN!
Tom W8MK
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On Feb 4, 2025, at 2:43?PM, Tom McMichael via groups.io <tommc7@...> wrote:
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Tom,?
I was just getting on the Groups.io to mention that!?
A very nice article!? Proud to be part of it all.??
Tom, KE8PAG
On Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 02:40:52 PM EST, Tom Hammond W8MK <thammond@...> wrote:
Greetings,
The QMN 90th Anniversary was highlighted in the February 2025 edition of the NTS Letter, published by the ARRL.?
I’d like to ask the regular participants how they feel about creating an on-air campaign or award program around our 90th anniversary. Here’s some food for thought? - award/certificate for 90 QNI into a QMN session (early, late, both, either) in 2025 - award/certificate for receiving and relaying or delivering 90 radiograms on QMN in 2025 - award/certificate for being NCS 90 times in 2025 - award/certificate to acknowledge a single QNI during our 90th anniversary (to attract new QNI)
Thoughts on how to pay for said awards/certificates?
Thoughts on how to publicize such an event throughout the year?
I’m open to suggestions!?
See you on QMN!
Tom W8MK
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Re: QMN featured in the February NTS Letter
Tom,?
I was just getting on the Groups.io to mention that!?
A very nice article!? Proud to be part of it all.??
Tom, KE8PAG
On Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 02:40:52 PM EST, Tom Hammond W8MK <thammond@...> wrote:
Greetings,
The QMN 90th Anniversary was highlighted in the February 2025 edition of the NTS Letter, published by the ARRL.?
I’d like to ask the regular participants how they feel about creating an on-air campaign or award program around our 90th anniversary. Here’s some food for thought? - award/certificate for 90 QNI into a QMN session (early, late, both, either) in 2025 - award/certificate for receiving and relaying or delivering 90 radiograms on QMN in 2025 - award/certificate for being NCS 90 times in 2025 - award/certificate to acknowledge a single QNI during our 90th anniversary (to attract new QNI)
Thoughts on how to pay for said awards/certificates?
Thoughts on how to publicize such an event throughout the year?
I’m open to suggestions!?
See you on QMN!
Tom W8MK
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QMN featured in the February NTS Letter
Greetings,
The QMN 90th Anniversary was highlighted in the February 2025 edition of the NTS Letter, published by the ARRL.?
I’d like to ask the regular participants how they feel about creating an on-air campaign or award program around our 90th anniversary. Here’s some food for thought? - award/certificate for 90 QNI into a QMN session (early, late, both, either) in 2025 - award/certificate for receiving and relaying or delivering 90 radiograms on QMN in 2025 - award/certificate for being NCS 90 times in 2025 - award/certificate to acknowledge a single QNI during our 90th anniversary (to attract new QNI)
Thoughts on how to pay for said awards/certificates?
Thoughts on how to publicize such an event throughout the year?
I’m open to suggestions!?
See you on QMN!
Tom W8MK
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Hello,
I will be out of town Friday 1/24 and Tuesday 1/28 and unable to be NCS for the QMN early net. Please consider volunteering. Thank you very much.
See you on QMN!
Celebrating 90 Years
Tom W8MK
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QMN Picnic 1998, 1999, maybe 2000?
These picnic photo bring back some memories.
Anyone remember Ray, KB8ZYY's bug set at 40+ WPM
and asking for repeats? LOL!
Call changes:
Anne KB8HGM to K8AE
Helene KC8ECG to WA8MEG now W8MEG
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If anyone wants the originals, please let me know.
73
Rich K8MEG
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Greetings,
Attached is the QMN Net Report for December 2024.
Have you heard? QMN is 90! Tell your friends. Join us on the net to celebrate. Have some cake. Ooooh, now there's an idea!!!
73,
Tom W8MK
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Thanks for the log sheet Mike, lots of good memories there. Most
of those calls I remember.
I first checked into QMN in the fall of 1966 when I was a
freshman at Michigan Tech in Houghton using the dorm station call
of WA8CQR. I knew nothing of net operations but learned rapidly
from fellow freshman. The dorm station was a Heath Mohican rx and
the Apache tx driving a pair of 811a's in parallel to about 500 W.
The antenna was a full size 130 foot long center fed dipole on the
roof of Wadsworth Hall so it was at least 50 ft up. I was fairly
active in QMN that fall and did my first checkin from home in
Dansville during Thanksgiving break using my home call, I was
WA8VBZ back then. I have logs from that time but they are back in
Laurium.
We are in a condo in St Augustine, FL for the next three months,
will try QMN checkin at some point.
Danny KB8W
On 1/5/2025 2:38 PM, Mike WB8DTT via
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Regarding K8MEG's log detail, Rich recorded the
frequencies down 3, down 6, up 6 for traffic passed. There were
three QMN sessions daily in 1970: Slow Net 2300Z, Fast Net
2330Z, Late Net 0300Z. I was thankful for the Slow Net for my
first few months. I regret that I did not record some sessions
because I did own a reel-to-reel tape recorder then. My rig was
a Heathkit HW-16 Novice Transceiver running 600 volts on the
final tube plate and dip the plate current to 150 milliamps at
resonance, which calculates to 90 watts DC power input. The
output power may have been 60 watts or so. My antenna was a
130-foot wire end-fed through a manually tuned series L /
parallel C network. I see automatic tuners today that use the
same circuit but with computer-switched relays. Common antennas
back then were center-fed through open-line feeders, like KN8CR
uses now.
On Sun, Jan 5, 2025, 8:53 AM
Mike WB8DTT via <jeromehowell626= [email protected]>
wrote:
Rich K8MEG told me that he and John
K8LJG were both licensed in 1958. And that Rich was
introduced to QMN by W8FX in about 1959 or 1960.
Jerry W8MSK had told that he and Stan
W8MPD (now K8SB) were both licensed in (I think) 1953.
I wonder what rig Stan used then to
get on the air.
Thanks for sharing Rich’s logbook entries
with us. This was a bit before my time as I first QNI’d
in 1981. I sure remember a lot of those callsigns,
though.
WB8R
On Jan 4, 2025, at 9:28?PM,
Mike WB8DTT via
<jeromehowell626=[email protected]>
wrote:
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Rich K8MEG gave me permission to
share a page from his 1970 logbook.
<Screenshot_20250104-211547~2.png>
Thanks, Rich.
73, Mike
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Regarding K8MEG's log detail, Rich recorded the frequencies down 3, down 6, up 6 for traffic passed. There were three QMN sessions daily in 1970: Slow Net 2300Z, Fast Net 2330Z, Late Net 0300Z. I was thankful for the Slow Net for my first few months. I regret that I did not record some sessions because I did own a reel-to-reel tape recorder then. My rig was a Heathkit HW-16 Novice Transceiver running 600 volts on the final tube plate and dip the plate current to 150 milliamps at resonance, which calculates to 90 watts DC power input. The output power may have been 60 watts or so. My antenna was a 130-foot wire end-fed through a manually tuned series L / parallel C network. I see automatic tuners today that use the same circuit but with computer-switched relays. Common antennas back then were center-fed through open-line feeders, like KN8CR uses now.
On Sun, Jan 5, 2025, 8:53 AM Mike WB8DTT via <jeromehowell626= [email protected]> wrote: Rich K8MEG told me that he and John K8LJG were both licensed in 1958. And that Rich was introduced to QMN by W8FX in about 1959 or 1960.Jerry W8MSK had told that he and Stan W8MPD (now K8SB) were both licensed in (I think) 1953. I wonder what rig Stan used then to get on the air.
Thanks for sharing Rich’s logbook entries with us. This was a bit before my time as I first QNI’d in 1981. I sure remember a lot of those callsigns, though.
WB8R
On Jan 4, 2025, at 9:28?PM, Mike WB8DTT via <jeromehowell626=[email protected]> wrote:
? Rich K8MEG gave me permission to share a page from his 1970 logbook. <Screenshot_20250104-211547~2.png> Thanks, Rich. 73, Mike
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Rich K8MEG told me that he and John K8LJG were both licensed in 1958. And that Rich was introduced to QMN by W8FX in about 1959 or 1960.Jerry W8MSK had told that he and Stan W8MPD (now K8SB) were both licensed in (I think) 1953. I wonder what rig Stan used then to get on the air.
Thanks for sharing Rich’s logbook entries with us. This was a bit before my time as I first QNI’d in 1981. I sure remember a lot of those callsigns, though.
WB8R
On Jan 4, 2025, at 9:28?PM, Mike WB8DTT via <jeromehowell626=[email protected]> wrote:
? Rich K8MEG gave me permission to share a page from his 1970 logbook. <Screenshot_20250104-211547~2.png> Thanks, Rich. 73, Mike
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Thanks for sharing Rich’s logbook entries with us. This was a bit before my time as I first QNI’d in 1981. I sure remember a lot of those callsigns, though.
WB8R
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Rich K8MEG gave me permission to share a page from his 1970 logbook.  Thanks, Rich. 73, Mike
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Tom,
Not to worry….. Circumstances were such that you got slammed with situations that you had not experienced previously. Every session as NCS is a learning experience and some experiences are tougher than others. Practice will help.
I like your grit, Tom. You will overcome this and come out a better NCS.?
Many thanks to Mike, WB8DTT for having the session details available so he could jump in to assist. A lesson learned here is to take notes just in case there is a rig failure or some other interruption and an on-the-run sub NCS may be needed.
73,
Larry, WB8R
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On Jan 3, 2025, at 7:34?PM, Tom McMichael via groups.io <tommc7@...> wrote:
? Okay, let me confess, I totally lost my ability to keep up with the head copy. So, thank all of you that was on the Friday QMN Early. And a special thanks to Mike, WB8DTT for QNG (and Larry, WB8R).?
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Clearly, I have some work to do to not panic and listen better when I'm head copying. A Goal for my New Year!!!
Also, still learning what to do when there are several locations and who to pair up. Back to the NTS Practice and Guide Manuel.?
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Thanks to everyone for their patience and kindness!!!!
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Tom, KE8PAG
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I called Tom on the phone after the net to apologize for violating the cardinal rule of not following NCS direction. I heard W8QZ offer to QSP Saranac so I asked KB8PGW to give it to him instead of me. When I returned to the net, I really confused the situation. But I guess we're all friends and K8ED straightened me out, so thanks, guys. What would W8FX have said if he was monitoring the net?
73, Mike
Hang in there - gotta start somewhere.
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W8QZ
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Hey, no problems with me.? Same thing happened to me once.? Couldn't keep up with the callsigns and traffic, couldn't organize it all fast enough.
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We got one message through- thanks?
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Okay, let me confess, I totally lost my ability to keep up with the head copy. So, thank all of you that was on the Friday QMN Early. And a special thanks to Mike, WB8DTT for QNG (and Larry, WB8R).?
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Clearly, I have some work to do to not panic and listen better when I'm head copying. A Goal for my New Year!!!
Also, still learning what to do when there are several locations and who to pair up. Back to the NTS Practice and Guide Manuel.?
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Thanks to everyone for their patience and kindness!!!!
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Tom, KE8PAG
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Hang in there - gotta start somewhere.
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Hey, no problems with me.? Same thing happened to me once.? Couldn't keep up with the callsigns and traffic, couldn't organize it all fast enough.
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We got one message through- thanks?
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Okay, let me confess, I totally lost my ability to keep up with the head copy. So, thank all of you that was on the Friday QMN Early. And a special thanks to Mike, WB8DTT for QNG (and Larry, WB8R).?
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Clearly, I have some work to do to not panic and listen better when I'm head copying. A Goal for my New Year!!!
Also, still learning what to do when there are several locations and who to pair up. Back to the NTS Practice and Guide Manuel.?
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Thanks to everyone for their patience and kindness!!!!
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Tom, KE8PAG
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Hey, no problems with me.? Same thing happened to me once.? Couldn't keep up with the callsigns and traffic, couldn't organize it all fast enough.
We got one message through- thanks?
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Okay, let me confess, I totally lost my ability to keep up with the head copy. So, thank all of you that was on the Friday QMN Early. And a special thanks to Mike, WB8DTT for QNG (and Larry, WB8R).?
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Clearly, I have some work to do to not panic and listen better when I'm head copying. A Goal for my New Year!!!
Also, still learning what to do when there are several locations and who to pair up. Back to the NTS Practice and Guide Manuel.?
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Thanks to everyone for their patience and kindness!!!!
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Tom, KE8PAG
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Okay, let me confess, I totally lost my ability to keep up with the head copy. So, thank all of you that was on the Friday QMN Early. And a special thanks to Mike, WB8DTT for QNG (and Larry, WB8R).?
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Clearly, I have some work to do to not panic and listen better when I'm head copying. A Goal for my New Year!!!
Also, still learning what to do when there are several locations and who to pair up. Back to the NTS Practice and Guide Manuel.?
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Thanks to everyone for their patience and kindness!!!!
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Tom, KE8PAG
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Hey- no problem with me.? I did that once- the callsigns and traffic came so fast that I couldn't write it down and organize it- you did better than I did that time..
thanks for helping get one message through- and doing NC duties.??
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Okay, let me confess, I totally lost my ability to keep up with the head copy. So, thank all of you that was on the Friday QMN Early. And a special thanks to Mike, WB8DTT for QNG (and Larry, WB8R).?
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Clearly, I have some work to do to not panic and listen better when I'm head copying. A Goal for my New Year!!!
Also, still learning what to do when there are several locations and who to pair up. Back to the NTS Practice and Guide Manuel.?
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Thanks to everyone for their patience and kindness!!!!
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Tom, KE8PAG
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Larry WB8R
