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Greetings, I am missing an early net report for Thursday Jan. 23. I need it to complete the January monthly report. Please email to me if you have it. Thanks, Tom W8MK

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.

Greetings, The QMN 90th Anniversary was highlighted in the February 2025 edition of the NTS Letter, published by the ARRL. https://arrl.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zMjQ2MTY4JnA9MSZ1PTUyMDM2ODYzNCZsaT0zNjc3ODE0NQ/index.html 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

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

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

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). 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. Thanks to everyone for their patience and kindness!!!! Tom, KE8PAG

Greetings, Celebrating our 38th wedding anniversary tonight so I am unable to NCS the early net. Please consider volunteering. Thank you very much! Speaking of anniversaries... Let's please not forget to use the revised QMN net preamble throughout 2025. QMN is celebrating 90 years. Please use "QMN The Michigan Net for 90 Years". 73, Tom W8MK

Greetings, On the eve of the celebration of the 90th Anniversary of the QMN Section Traffic Net, I am going to conduct the early session tonight using my first key - a Speed X straight key. There were no electronic keyers in 1935, so I challenge each of you to operate with a straight key or bug tonight. I did this a number of years ago when my NCS duties fell on New Years Eve. I had fun with it then and I hope you enjoy listening to my rusty old fist tonight. Coincidentally, I used a straight key exclusively back in the mid-late 1970's when I first joined the ranks of QMN. I know it's short notice. I had to dig out my key from a box buried in storage. Hopefully some of you will be "game" to have some fun. See you on QMN! Tom W8MK

Greetings and Happy New Year, QMN, The Michigan Net, is celebrating 90 years in 2025! As Larry WB8R has suggested, let's please recognize this incredible achievement by acknowledging the milestone in our preample during 2025. Attached is a revised copy of the QMN Net Preamble to use throughout 2025. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated. Have a happy, safe, and blessed 2025 everyone! Tom W8MK

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

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

Hello, I will miss Tuesday NCS late net due to travel. And here is the part where I wish everyone MXM and HNY. Jeff (dit dit)

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

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

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 groups.io <thammond@...> 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

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

Tom, W8MK, thanks for the insight. Did not know HR also meant Here and Ready! Tom, KE8PAG

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