Ham Radio Update
Well, we were semi-successful with our first RV ragchew yesterday. Marty (W9EAA) checked in from Iowa, and I was here (K2GOC) from upstate NY. Dave (KM5XE) checked in from New Mexico, and Rob (W2WOE) from Delaware. We also heard Mark (K5BAY from Texas. We all couldn't hear each other on 20M so we QSYed over to 40M. That worked pretty good for the guys in the eastern US, but we lost the west! The three of us talked for a few minutes and then went back to work on our projects. I think this has the potential to be a lot of fun, but it is hard to find the right band and time to maximize propagation to all areas. 40M worked OK, but the QRM is annoying. 20M had better long distance communication but there was a lot of fading in and out. Marty used some propagation software to calculate that 0030Z would be a good time to try 40M again, and I think we will try that this evening. Probably around 7205 plus or minus, depending on frequency congestion.
My ultimate goal would be to have something like a weekly net on 20M, that would provde the best wide-area coverage. I don't know how successful we would be in pulling in the Australia guys.
Does anybody know how to move this thread over to the general area, because it's not just for RV-12 people.