Wednesday, January 25, 2023

CQ 10 meter net

I posed a question to the semi-official net-ops of the Northwest Ten Meter Net on 28.380 (M-W-F) 7:30 p.m. Pacific Time.

"How about an off-day CW net either in the morning, or evening.   28.000 Mhz + some offset for where net's are usually present.  Don't want to QRM the digital mode folks.  Maybe 28.280 Mhz ?

Anyway.. the idea was proposed with a few goals:

The goal of the PNW Ten Meter CW Net would be:

  1. Encourage and practice CW use.
  2. Attract stations from as far as 10 meter propagation takes us (and by extension LEARN if propagation is evolving over the onset of the Cycle-25 dynamics)
  3. Develop techniques to run a directed net via CW that can be extended for other bands and emergency situations where SSB / digital modes are not possible.  (More tools in the toolbox)
If something materializes, that would be great.  We'll  see.


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