NETNEWS
by WB6IXN
1/04/2006 10m Phone Net - W6ZE/CCE checked
in HHC and IXN. CCE went up north to visit wid
his brother in the High Sierras during the holidays, and wid rain non-stop, Kenan did no
skiing! HHC had one eye on the TV and one ear
on the rig as Ken was busy wid the Net, and, watching the USC/Texas Longhorns Rose Bowl
game. Ken picked up a new Bencher paddle at
the Candy Store, and Ken now has digital voice mode operational. HHC has now worked 4 countries, CW, on
30m….Ken then told CCE abt a gud ham field trip to Cedar Springs in the San Jacinto
Mts, going out Hwy 74 to
1/04/2006 2m Phone Net - Check-ins on both
Nets was small due to the Rose Bowl game. W6ZE/IXN
checked in N1AB, HHC, MIH, MIG, MIF, and N6JSM, John.
MIG witnessed the sentencing of Jack Gerritsen and his handcuffing before he
was led off to federal prison...Let this be a warning to other law-breaking lids that the
FCC means business on communications law enforcement issues!
AB and XYL attended a
1/08/2006 OCWN 40m
CW Net
– NCS/UEB checked in IMW, GVG, HKT, IB, KFW, KS6CW, VDP, OIO, IC, IXN, NXY, and NT. The proposal that UEB is working on now makes
Saturday a regular workday! IMW, just saying
goodbye to a house guest, said that RND did a FB job as NC last week. GVG, wid unstable band condx this morning, gave NC
a 559 sig rpt. HKT is looking forward to
Quartzite & Laughlin later this month. IB
tnxed GVG fer the nice flowers (HI), and same to you, OM, and Casey said that the Placer
County ARES Team is starting a 2-meter CW training net in two weeks on Sunday night! KFW finally got his station bk on the air after
painting & carpeting the whole house, in addition to the XYL hving hp replacement
surgery Dec. 5! KS6CW is getting ready to
start a new class to get her Travel Industry Certificate, and VDP tried to work IMW on 6m
AM, but no luck! OIO has an old pal of the
1/11/2006 10m Phone Net - W6ZE/CCE checked
in LDC, CCD, HHC, IXN, and AF6C. CCE enjoyed
looking at pix of past DXpeditions on the Club website, and Kenan is still working on
construction of a road bike. LDC will look fer
a convenient date fer another DXpedition by next Club meeting. CCD gave the 220 MHz rig that he won to his
buddy…Now they hold evening scheds!…And Tom is glad to be back frm a
friend’s funeral in Tulare last week…CCD worked the 10m band today…all the
way to Long Beach!…HI! HHC visited wid
PFA in
1/11/2006 2m Phone Net - W6ZE/IXN checked
in N1AB, JD, MIV, HHC, EH, AF6C, CCE, KFW, and MIG. N1AB
‘flew in & flew out’,and JD, the XYL feeling better and Lowell getting an OK
on recent eye surgery, will be off tomorrow afternoon to visit PFA at UCI Med. Center. MIV & HHC had an eyeball QSO abt 30m ants., and
Ken has worked 5 countries, DX, CW, on 30m! And
AF6C decided to allow HHC to air the Palm Pilot Newsline file tonite since Ken has
Bob’s Interface Box! HHC then reminded OPs that ‘Club dues are due!’
for 2006. MIV got gud sig rpts frm OPs on both
the HT and J-pole sigs, and KFW built up a shortened 30m ant. which he will check out wid
HHC…Chris checked in frm a parking lot in
1/15/2006 OCWN 40m CW Net - NCS/UEB checked
in IMW, KFW, GVG, IB, HKT, KS6CW, RND, VDP, NT, IXN, KA6G, and NXY. UEB’s ‘work curve’ is peaking at 6
to 7 days/week, and Rick is looking forward to the end of the Proposal…maybe a trip
to Sedona to celebrate! IMW, his visitor gone,
is now bk to normal…However, Ian overslept and didn’t hve time to tune properly! KFW built the 30m shortened antenna designed by
W6HHC, and Chris is presently trimming it to the center of the band…KFW will work CW
& PSK-31 on 30m. GVG, wid weak sigs on all
OPs, ‘flew in and flew out’,asking IB to relay his QNX. IB will be off this afternoon for a week-long
business trip to the San Francisco Bay area, and HKT went to the LA Auto Show this week,
saying that the small 4x4 trucks are getting bigger each year!…Homer told OPs to look
up KG6RQX in QRZ if interested in Orange County Skywarn.
NCS wasn’t able to copy CW this morning, and RND copying all OPs, got
anew indoor/outdoor thermometer (temp: 51.3 deg.F). VDP
was kicked back enjoying the sunny day, and NT, wid bum sigs on OPs, had blue skies &
no wind at the beach. IXN finally got all the
ballots counted for a new board of directors for the OCA, and NCS told OPs that the Morse
Telegraph Club has a slow-speed CW net Sat. mornings at 0930 hrs local, on 7.084 MHz! KA6G, wid the ant. down on the house, cudn’t
hear OPs too well, and NXY, wid cool WX & much rain yesterday, worked a lot of QRP CW
indoors.
1/18/2006 10m Phone Net - W6ZE/AF6C checked
in LDC, HHC, IXN, FMX, and CCD. LDC is looking
forward to Friday Club meeting, and Larry sent E-mails to AF6C, HHC, and CCE wid possible
dates fer a Club DXpedition. HHC relayed
unheard part of LDC’s xmission to NC. HHC
said it was gud to hear FMX bk on the Net, and Ken gave OPs Jerusalem broadcast freqs. of
6.983, 6.985, 6.973, 9.4, 11.6, 15.6, and 17.5 MHz. HHC
downloaded PSK-31 software, and Ken is now on 30m packet...Now HHC will try to work the
Olympics station in
1/18/2006 2m Phone Net - W6ZE/IXN checked
in JD, MIH, HHC, AF6C, and MIV. JD & HHC
reported that PFA is bk home frm the hospital and doing well frm recent surgery!...And
Lowell picked up a pair of Heil headphones, wid a boom mike, which AF6C or HHC will listen
for JD when he is ready to give the headphones a test.
Eenie, meenie, miny, mo...and HHC finally picked up the right mike, out of
four, now lying on his desk...HHC reminded OPs to come to Club meeting Fri. nite to hear
N6HC, Arnie present a DXpedition slide show!...Now Ken has set a goal to work 100
countries, DX, on PSK-31! AF6C said
‘HI’ to Kevin, and IXN & MIH briefly discussed merit badges necessary to
complete Eagle Scout requirements. MIV checked
in at Net’s end, and IXN thought that Brian sounded like MIG!...HI! Then AF6C aired IPOD Newsline #1483...The FCC is
opening the road to regulation by bandwidth...And there are at least 216,000 dead &
missing frm the huge Indian Ocean tsunami & earthquake!...Fresh stone & boulder
movement down Martian slopes are either caused by strong Martian winds, or, Marsquakes. Mars may be more seismically active than we
thought!...Tnx, Bob!
1/22/2006 OCWN 40m CW Net - NCS/UEB checked
in IMW, KFW, HKT, OIO, IB, VDP, RND, NT, IXN, KS6CW, NXY, and GVG. UEB, cited by the Homeowner’s Assoc., is
having the house painted this week. IMW,
arriving at the Chino Hills Swapmeet before sun-up, found some amazing stuff, now to find
the space to store it! KFW enjoyed last Fri.
eve.’s OCARC meeting where Arnie Shatz, N6HC, gave an excellent presentation on the
K7C Kure Is. DXpedition. HKT, unable to hear
KFW, is off to Laughlin & Quartzite tomorrow…Homer said that the 2 new ships, the
Queen Elizabeth & Queen Mary, coming to LA soon, may not fit in the main channel! OIO, in chilly Gaden Grove, told OPs that there
isn’t any snow in Barton Flats yet. IB’s
business trip was long and arduous, and Casey had to QNX to prepare for a
1/25/2006 10m Phone Net - W6ZE/AF6C checked
in HHC, LDC, CCD, KI6AUL-Nicholas, IXN, and CCE. LDC
is off on a RV 4-day trip tomorrow to
1/25/2006 2m Phone Net - W6ZE/IXN checked
in AF6C, AUL/m, CCE, and HHC. IXN told AF6C
that beam motion on the 10m Net made no noticeable change in sigs received at IXN’s
QTH. AF6C recommended reading Feynman’s
book, “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman”, to investigate interesting
Physics phenomenon…IXN concurs! AUL/m,
checking in on 146.555 MHz, was dwn in the noise at NC’s QTH…However, HHC
relayed, telling the Net that Nicolas is working on the 5-minute code requirement fer his
General…AUL was only using 1 watt! CCE
was really worried abt the antennas during the SA winds, but nothing came down!…Nw
Kenan is getting ready to sell sum gear, wid his eyes set on a ICOM 7000! HHC supplied AUL wid a 2m J-pole ant., and Ken suggested
that OPs, having speaker interference during transmit, use toroids in the speaker leads to
eliminate the interference. AF6C then aired
Newsline #1484…3YÆX will be the
station call for the upcoming Peter 1 Island DXpedition near the South Pole for 2 weeks in
early February…Remember, sending QSL cards via the Bureau is usually the least
expensive way to go!…Tnx, Bob!
1/29/2006 OCWN 40m CW Net - NCS/UEB checked
in IMW, GVG, IC, IB, KS6CW, KA6G, KFW, RND, OIO, HKT, VDP, NT, IXN, and NXY. Rick, wid the XYL & harmonic celebrating the
Chinese New Year, and Rick celebrating a day off frm the Proposal, said the house painting
is done, and, the antenna and ground are now reconnected.
IMW, on homebrew gear, will try better next time…Nice sigs except for
Pactor or whatever. GVG played wid 1BÆM CW contest for a
few hours using a sloper…Much fun…HI! IC
told OPs that