Good Morning to my fellow QMN ops! It is Sunday morning, December 29 as I write this and we are close to putting the wraps on another great year of service to our respective communities and to the amateur radio service as a whole.
I continue to be amazed by the dedication and enthusiasm shown by our great ops over the many years of dedicated operation. While I consider myself one of the ‘old timers’, I know that there are others that have been QMN-ers for longer than I have. My old logs show that my first logged QMN QNI was on April 5, 1981 with Ted, W8UE as NCS.
As for the modified net call-up for 2025, I am good with the suggested “QMN the Michigan Net for 90 Years”.?
My goal now is to find a way to survive long enough to help celebrate our 100th anniversary.
Thanks to all active QMN ops, and especially to those radio pioneers who have gone before us and laid down the path that we now follow.
What a great group….Thanks to you all for helping keep our institution alive and well.
73,
Larry, WB8R
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On Dec 28, 2024, at 9:28?AM, Tom McMichael via groups.io <tommc7@...> wrote:
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So, I have had this fear that one day I will wake up and realize that I missed my NCS assignment! It happens, I'm sure, and I bet it has been done by many others over the last 90 years of QMN. I read yesterday in the NTS Methods and Practices Guidelines this great statement: "If you have not made a mistake then you have not been a Net Control Station!"? What a relief it was to read that!?
I had wondered about Mark, K8ED. There are a bunch of bugs going around. Keep resting my friend and get well!
About the Preamble for 90 years. I am good with either suggestion. I'll probably end up doing both without realizing it (see first paragraph).?
Tom, KE8PAG HNY!?
On Friday, December 27, 2024 at 09:26:16 PM EST, Tom Hammond W8MK <thammond@...> wrote:
Hey folks,
Sorry about missing my NCS slot tonight on the early net. I won't lie,
time simply got away from me as I was deep into preparing a presentation
for the genealogy club meeting next month. It was 6:39pm when I saw the
clock and figured the net was probably wrapping up anyway. Hopefully
someone stepped in and covered for me. Thank you.
I exchanged text messages with Mark K8ED on Tuesday after not hearing
him or seeing him on any net reports for a number of consecutive days.
Mark reported that he was down with a bad cold or something and was
trying to sleep it off. Hopefully Mark is back on the air now. If not,
please keep Mark in your thoughts and hopefully he'll be back on the air
soon.
So, apparently QMN will be celebrating 90 years on the air in 2025.
That's a huge accomplishment! I do believe that QMN is one of the
oldest, if not THE oldest traffic nets in existence. While no big
celebration or hall-of-fame induction will take place in 2025, Larry
WB8R has suggested that we commemorate our anniversary by including a
reference to the 90 years in our net preamble. Currently in the preamble
we send "QMN The Michigan Net". Larry WB8R has suggested "QMN/90 YRS The
Michigan Net". I think I prefer "QMN The Michigan Net for 90 YRS".
Please let me know which you prefer, at the risk of having a 50/50
response. I am open to other suggestions, but would like to keep it very
brief. I'd like to make a decision by the early net on January 1, 2025.
Tom W8MK
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I was at a Christmas gathering of 22 of us in Clarkston December 25 and missed my NCS assignment. I like Tom's suggestion of adding "90 yrs" to the preamble. I was thankful that QMN was active when I returned to Amateur radio in 2022 after over 25 years QRT. It was quite a cultural shock to see what had changed, and studying for the modern Technician Class license exam was daunting for an old brass pounder.
Happy New Year
Mike WB8DTT
So, I have had this fear that one day I will wake up and realize that I missed my NCS assignment! It happens, I'm sure, and I bet it has been done by many others over the last 90 years of QMN. I read yesterday in the NTS Methods and Practices Guidelines this great statement: "If you have not made a mistake then you have not been a Net Control Station!"? What a relief it was to read that!?
I had wondered about Mark, K8ED. There are a bunch of bugs going around. Keep resting my friend and get well!
About the Preamble for 90 years. I am good with either suggestion. I'll probably end up doing both without realizing it (see first paragraph).?
Tom, KE8PAG HNY!?
On Friday, December 27, 2024 at 09:26:16 PM EST, Tom Hammond W8MK < thammond@...> wrote:
Hey folks,
Sorry about missing my NCS slot tonight on the early net. I won't lie,
time simply got away from me as I was deep into preparing a presentation
for the genealogy club meeting next month. It was 6:39pm when I saw the
clock and figured the net was probably wrapping up anyway. Hopefully
someone stepped in and covered for me. Thank you.
I exchanged text messages with Mark K8ED on Tuesday after not hearing
him or seeing him on any net reports for a number of consecutive days.
Mark reported that he was down with a bad cold or something and was
trying to sleep it off. Hopefully Mark is back on the air now. If not,
please keep Mark in your thoughts and hopefully he'll be back on the air
soon.
So, apparently QMN will be celebrating 90 years on the air in 2025.
That's a huge accomplishment! I do believe that QMN is one of the
oldest, if not THE oldest traffic nets in existence. While no big
celebration or hall-of-fame induction will take place in 2025, Larry
WB8R has suggested that we commemorate our anniversary by including a
reference to the 90 years in our net preamble. Currently in the preamble
we send "QMN The Michigan Net". Larry WB8R has suggested "QMN/90 YRS The
Michigan Net". I think I prefer "QMN The Michigan Net for 90 YRS".
Please let me know which you prefer, at the risk of having a 50/50
response. I am open to other suggestions, but would like to keep it very
brief. I'd like to make a decision by the early net on January 1, 2025.
Tom W8MK
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I think that modifying the second line of the QMN net preamble to “QMN QMN QMN The Michigan Net for 90 yrs” would work.
We are in the process of our annual winter migration to St. Augustine, Florida so my nightly checkins from Laurium to the late QMN session have ended as of last night. We intend to return in late March 2025.
I will attempt some checkins to the late net from Florida, but I don’t know how the antenna situation will work since we will be in a different condo this year.
73
Danny KB8W
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So, I have had this fear that one day I will wake up and realize that I missed my NCS assignment! It happens, I'm sure, and I bet it has been done by many others over the last 90 years of QMN. I read yesterday in the NTS Methods and Practices Guidelines this great statement: "If you have not made a mistake then you have not been a Net Control Station!"? What a relief it was to read that!?
I had wondered about Mark, K8ED. There are a bunch of bugs going around. Keep resting my friend and get well!
About the Preamble for 90 years. I am good with either suggestion. I'll probably end up doing both without realizing it (see first paragraph).?
Tom, KE8PAG HNY!?
On Friday, December 27, 2024 at 09:26:16 PM EST, Tom Hammond W8MK <thammond@...> wrote:
Hey folks,
Sorry about missing my NCS slot tonight on the early net. I won't lie,
time simply got away from me as I was deep into preparing a presentation
for the genealogy club meeting next month. It was 6:39pm when I saw the
clock and figured the net was probably wrapping up anyway. Hopefully
someone stepped in and covered for me. Thank you.
I exchanged text messages with Mark K8ED on Tuesday after not hearing
him or seeing him on any net reports for a number of consecutive days.
Mark reported that he was down with a bad cold or something and was
trying to sleep it off. Hopefully Mark is back on the air now. If not,
please keep Mark in your thoughts and hopefully he'll be back on the air
soon.
So, apparently QMN will be celebrating 90 years on the air in 2025.
That's a huge accomplishment! I do believe that QMN is one of the
oldest, if not THE oldest traffic nets in existence. While no big
celebration or hall-of-fame induction will take place in 2025, Larry
WB8R has suggested that we commemorate our anniversary by including a
reference to the 90 years in our net preamble. Currently in the preamble
we send "QMN The Michigan Net". Larry WB8R has suggested "QMN/90 YRS The
Michigan Net". I think I prefer "QMN The Michigan Net for 90 YRS".
Please let me know which you prefer, at the risk of having a 50/50
response. I am open to other suggestions, but would like to keep it very
brief. I'd like to make a decision by the early net on January 1, 2025.
Tom W8MK
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Hey folks,
Sorry about missing my NCS slot tonight on the early net. I won't lie, time simply got away from me as I was deep into preparing a presentation for the genealogy club meeting next month. It was 6:39pm when I saw the clock and figured the net was probably wrapping up anyway. Hopefully someone stepped in and covered for me. Thank you.
I exchanged text messages with Mark K8ED on Tuesday after not hearing him or seeing him on any net reports for a number of consecutive days. Mark reported that he was down with a bad cold or something and was trying to sleep it off. Hopefully Mark is back on the air now. If not, please keep Mark in your thoughts and hopefully he'll be back on the air soon.
So, apparently QMN will be celebrating 90 years on the air in 2025. That's a huge accomplishment! I do believe that QMN is one of the oldest, if not THE oldest traffic nets in existence. While no big celebration or hall-of-fame induction will take place in 2025, Larry WB8R has suggested that we commemorate our anniversary by including a reference to the 90 years in our net preamble. Currently in the preamble we send "QMN The Michigan Net". Larry WB8R has suggested "QMN/90 YRS The Michigan Net". I think I prefer "QMN The Michigan Net for 90 YRS".
Please let me know which you prefer, at the risk of having a 50/50 response. I am open to other suggestions, but would like to keep it very brief. I'd like to make a decision by the early net on January 1, 2025.
Tom W8MK
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Hello,
I will miss Tuesday NCS late net due to travel.
And here is the part where I wish everyone MXM and HNY.
Jeff
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Re: Sub needed early net TONIGHT
I will not be able to sub.? Out of town tonight.
Tom, KE8PAG
On Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 11:32:57 AM EST, Tom Hammond W8MK <thammond@...> wrote:
Very sorry for the late notice. I will be unable to NCS the QMN early
net tonight at 6:30pm ET. Please consider volunteering.
Thank you,
Tom W8MK
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Sub needed early net TONIGHT
Very sorry for the late notice. I will be unable to NCS the QMN early net tonight at 6:30pm ET. Please consider volunteering.
Thank you,
Tom W8MK
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Hello,
After returning from a trip last week (explains my lack of QNI), I have another late work event on Tuesday.
Similar to last week, possibility of being late or missing.
Sorry,
kn8cr
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My two Elecraft K2's are full break in pin diode switching.? No clickity clack ever.? The 100 watt one is in the shack, the other is the 15 watt version for field operations.? They both have a very fast recovery time to receive between dits and dahs- I use
the fancy IC7300 for digital operations.? It works on CW but not as nice.
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My Yaesu FT-891 has a T/R relay response time that I have set to a half second so it will not clatter when I'm sending. So I miss any responses to my calls that occur instantly and need to be repeated. In February I bought a Penntek
TR-35 QRP transceiver (40 through 17) that is QSK which is the first one since my Heathkit HW-16 in 1969. My Drake TR-4C and Yaesu FT-301 transceivers were also T/R relay switched. So I envy all you guys who have QSK.
Mike WB8DTT?
On Wed, Dec 4, 2024, 2:55 PM Tom Hammond W8MK via ?<thammond= [email protected]> wrote:
I emailed James Wades WB8SIW on this matter and James confirmed that “HR” was used by commercial Morse ops to represent “hand ready”. I first heard this interesting tidbit from SK Jeff WB8WKQ. I’ve scoured the Internet for ?references
but have yet to find one. However, I respect James’ knowledge of all things Telegraph and Morse Code. I was just trying to introduce some history trivia to the net. Stand practice today is to send QRV for “ready to copy”.?
Tom W8MK
On Dec 4, 2024, at 9:23?AM, Larry WB8R < l.camp@...> wrote:
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I have not heard of this specific meaning previously either….. I always thought answering to a call on the net was that it meant ‘I am present and listening and I guess that is pretty much the same thing.’ Of course there is always
the ever-present response to a call during the net to simply send one Dah to indicate that you are paying attention. In my book, brevity tends to rule……
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LC
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Greetings,
I was missing an early net report for November 5. I looked at the calendar and Nov 5 was a Tuesday. Wait, I am the NCS on the Tuesday early nets. I went back through my notebook and sure enough, I was NCS on Nov 5. I just forgot to update the spreadsheet.
Attached is the net report for November. Hopefully there are no arithmetic typos in this month's report. If there are, I'm sure they'll be caught ;)
Tom W8MK
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Tom, ? ? Thank’s for the interesting info.It was the first I had heard of that. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? John K8LJG?
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On Dec 4, 2024, at 3:50?PM, Mike WB8DTT via groups.io <jeromehowell626@...> wrote:
? My Yaesu FT-891 has a T/R relay response time that I have set to a half second so it will not clatter when I'm sending. So I miss any responses to my calls that occur instantly and need to be repeated. In February I bought a Penntek TR-35 QRP transceiver (40 through 17) that is QSK which is the first one since my Heathkit HW-16 in 1969. My Drake TR-4C and Yaesu FT-301 transceivers were also T/R relay switched. So I envy all you guys who have QSK. Mike WB8DTT? On Wed, Dec 4, 2024, 2:55 PM Tom Hammond W8MK via <thammond= [email protected]> wrote: I emailed James Wades WB8SIW on this matter and James confirmed that “HR” was used by commercial Morse ops to represent “hand ready”. I first heard this interesting tidbit from SK Jeff WB8WKQ. I’ve scoured the Internet for ?references but have yet to find one. However, I respect James’ knowledge of all things Telegraph and Morse Code. I was just trying to introduce some history trivia to the net. Stand practice today is to send QRV for “ready to copy”.?
Tom W8MK On Dec 4, 2024, at 9:23?AM, Larry WB8R <l.camp@...> wrote:
? I have not heard of this specific meaning previously either….. I always thought answering to a call on the net was that it meant ‘I am present and listening and I guess that is pretty much the same thing.’ Of course there is always the ever-present response to a call during the net to simply send one Dah to indicate that you are paying attention. In my book, brevity tends to rule……
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LC
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My Yaesu FT-891 has a T/R relay response time that I have set to a half second so it will not clatter when I'm sending. So I miss any responses to my calls that occur instantly and need to be repeated. In February I bought a Penntek TR-35 QRP transceiver (40 through 17) that is QSK which is the first one since my Heathkit HW-16 in 1969. My Drake TR-4C and Yaesu FT-301 transceivers were also T/R relay switched. So I envy all you guys who have QSK. Mike WB8DTT?
On Wed, Dec 4, 2024, 2:55 PM Tom Hammond W8MK via <thammond= [email protected]> wrote: I emailed James Wades WB8SIW on this matter and James confirmed that “HR” was used by commercial Morse ops to represent “hand ready”. I first heard this interesting tidbit from SK Jeff WB8WKQ. I’ve scoured the Internet for ?references but have yet to find one. However, I respect James’ knowledge of all things Telegraph and Morse Code. I was just trying to introduce some history trivia to the net. Stand practice today is to send QRV for “ready to copy”.?
Tom W8MK On Dec 4, 2024, at 9:23?AM, Larry WB8R <l.camp@...> wrote:
? I have not heard of this specific meaning previously either….. I always thought answering to a call on the net was that it meant ‘I am present and listening and I guess that is pretty much the same thing.’ Of course there is always the ever-present response to a call during the net to simply send one Dah to indicate that you are paying attention. In my book, brevity tends to rule……
?
LC
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I emailed James Wades WB8SIW on this matter and James confirmed that “HR” was used by commercial Morse ops to represent “hand ready”. I first heard this interesting tidbit from SK Jeff WB8WKQ. I’ve scoured the Internet for ?references but have yet to find one. However, I respect James’ knowledge of all things Telegraph and Morse Code. I was just trying to introduce some history trivia to the net. Stand practice today is to send QRV for “ready to copy”.?
Tom W8MK
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On Dec 4, 2024, at 9:23?AM, Larry WB8R <l.camp@...> wrote:
? I have not heard of this specific meaning previously either….. I always thought answering to a call on the net was that it meant ‘I am present and listening and I guess that is pretty much the same thing.’ Of course there is always the ever-present response to a call during the net to simply send one Dah to indicate that you are paying attention. In my book, brevity tends to rule……
?
LC
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I have not heard of this specific meaning previously either….. I always thought answering to a call on the net was that it meant ‘I am present and listening and I guess that is pretty much the same thing.’ Of course there is always the ever-present response to a call during the net to simply send one Dah to indicate that you are paying attention. In my book, brevity tends to rule……
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LC
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QMN to be 90 Years Young in 2025
Good morning fellows,
It just occurred to me that QMN will have been in operation for 90 years (with the exception of the war years in the 1940’s) in 2025. What a milestone……
I am looking forward to some sort of a celebration, either on the air or in person or both and would like to see something to honor and celebrate the net’s trailbreaking dedication to duty.
I have already secured the location for the 2025 picnic in Coldwater and perhaps that might play into our plans for celebration. ?We might also contact Jim Wades, WB8SIW to get his thoughts on such an idea for celebrating 90 years.
Food for thought: How about a special net call up for 2025 that calls attention to our loyalty and dedication to the American Public? Perhaps using QMN 90 in the net call up?
I am not necessarily volunteering to head up such program as my mission here is to throw some flammable fodder on the embers of our net.
Looking forward to some discussion……
I am posting this on our Groups.io account as well.
73,
Larry, WB8R
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On Dec 3, 2024, at 9:16?PM, Tom Hammond W8MK <thammond@...> wrote:
? Close, Tom. HR - “here” or “hand ready”, as in “I’m ready to copy”.?
Maybe James WB8SIW can comment. I think I heard this from him.?
Tom W8MK On Dec 3, 2024, at 7:30?PM, Tom McMichael via groups.io <tommc7@...> wrote:
? Tom, W8MK,
thanks for the insight. Did not know HR also meant Here and Ready!
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Tom, KE8PAG
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Close, Tom. HR - “here” or “hand ready”, as in “I’m ready to copy”.?
Maybe James WB8SIW can comment. I think I heard this from him.?
Tom W8MK
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On Dec 3, 2024, at 7:30?PM, Tom McMichael via groups.io <tommc7@...> wrote:
? Tom, W8MK,
thanks for the insight. Did not know HR also meant Here and Ready!
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Tom, KE8PAG
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Tom, W8MK,
thanks for the insight. Did not know HR also meant Here and Ready!
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Tom, KE8PAG
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Hiya,
I have a video call scheduled that may bump up against my NCS slot. If I am late, someone please pick it up as I have no idea when the call may end.
Sorry for the sparse participation, year end fun.
Jeff KN8CR
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Larry WB8R
Mike WB8DTT