Hi Lance,
Its great to have more hams active on HF, especially locally. I'm hoping I can drop in on 80 and say hello to the group soon. I heard about it OTA earlier in the week, so word is getting out.
I've been on 160 before, but not in some time. I think I can tune down there, but maybe I'll try out another antenna for it. 160 is a lot of fun when its open, and what's a few hundred more feet of wire in the air, right?
Glad to have you join us.
73 de KG5ZSU
Tommy Brooks
(A not very active groups.io member.)
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On Nov 20, 2021, 10:35 AM, Lance W5TWM via groups.io < W5TWM@...> wrote:
Hello everyone, just joined or rejoined (I can't recall lol) this groups.io ETECS group with this Ham related email. Hope all are well.
Just wanted to remind anyone who is interested to please feel free to join us on the fairly new 80M Sunday evening Regional NVIS net. It is now held at 6pm CST Sundays on 3.805Mhz (We sometimes move between 3.803 and 3.815 depending on QRM but usually it is on or very close to 3.805 and I will try to announce on the TARC repeater system just prior to the net if there is a QSY...so look around and find us!).
This net is taking advantage of NVIS propagation (see??) and favors a more vertical takeoff angle of radiation. Thus a low to the ground antenna is not always a bad thing and may even help in this. The idea, which I think dovetails nicely into this group, is to test and prepare for regional communications using radio only without the use of repeater towers or cell phones.
Sorry for the long note but wanted to share this and say hi!
73, Lance W5TWM
PS..as a bonus challenge...anyone who has or wants to build a 160M antenna (there are some plans and even commercially available shortened ones that appear to work well) please let me know as I am planning to put up one myself and the cool thing about 160M is it can take advantage of this NVIS propagation even at night (when the critical frequency usually drops below the 80M band and thus allows for a regional comms direct method during the dark hours...something that could be useful in an emergency...or at least fun for late night rag chews or possibly another NVIS net ;)? )
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