Beginning Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016, the following AmRRON National Net schedule takes effect for the first and third Wednesday and Thursday of each month:
WEDNESDAY (in the U.S.)
2000hrs Zulu 20m Voice Net on 14.342 USB
2030hrs Zulu 20m Digital Net on 14.110 USB (Contestia 4/250)
*WEDNESDAY EVENING (in the U.S.)
0130hrs Zulu 40m Voice Net on 7.242 LSB
0230hrs Zulu 40m Digital Net on 7.110 USB (Contestia 4/250)
THURSDAY EVENING (in the U.S.)
80m Rolling Nets (NO SCHEDULE CHANGE)
Thursday evening ‘Rolling Nets’ will continue as always:
— 80 Meter Rolling Nets during winter months (01 Nov – 31 Mar)
— 40 Meter Rolling Nets during summer months (01 Apr – 31 Oct)
*The Wednesday evening nets will have one national Net Control Operator, as we used to have. This will require stations to act as relays and step up to assume ‘Assistant Net Control’ duties to help facilitate getting the NWOTW distributed, and relaying information throughout the nets. The primary purpose of the Wednesday evening net will be to focus on getting information distributed to the network, with less focus on ‘check ins’. The information to be passed may be in the form of NWOTW, as well as SITREPs, SPOTREPs, messages, and other traffic.
These Wednesday (40/80m) nets will be a less formal, but very important, practice net which might simulate a real-world disaster situation where more formal Net Control Stations have not yet been coordinated or present.
Hello there…. I did not see what frequency the 80m Thursday night nets is on or around…….??
73 de KA0EGE Jeff
VOICE: 3.818 LSB
DIGITAL: 3.588 USB
(Mode: Contestia 4/250 unless otherwise directed by Net Control)
https://www.amrron.com/nets-regional-national/amrron-regionalnational-nets/
Curious why Contestia was chosen over MT63-500?
MT63 is much faster and resists interference and fade very well.
UU-01
Heard 20m net at 2000z today. Did not hear 40m at 0130 “Wednesday night.” What happened?
There was QRM on 7.242 so we qsy to 7.245… then ended up at 7.232. Joining Chatzy during the practice nets might be helpful since we have operators posting the QSY frequency. Glad you heard the 20m today. There were several AmRRON members that were able to get checked in. On the 40m net, it was pretty tough. We did have a Georgia station pulling in a pile-up of relays. Here is the link for the Chatzy Chatroom. Once you create a user (Using your AmRRON Code Name), you can enter the AmRRON/TAPRN Chatroom using the member password from your original ‘Welcome to AmRRON’ letter. Thanks for being out there. http://www.chatzy.com/68369649752857
AND, also keep in mind that is an opportunity to practice searching for the net by slowing moving the dial. In a real world situation, Chatzy might not be available.
Hello,
I have a Radio Shack Pro-107 Scanner Does it have the ability to pick up the Nets?
Thank you.
Your Radio Shack Scanner would be for local monitoring. You need a Shortwave Radio with Single Sideband to monitor the HF nets. Here is an example of a shortwave with SSB- http://amzn.to/1SuMHFc And remember, your shortwave radio is only as good as the antenna and you will most likely need an long wire antenna.
This post on AmRRON, might be helpful. https://www.amrron.com/2014/10/03/shortwave-antenna-project-by-usnerdoc/
Feb 4, 2016 there was a Kentucky net on LSB 3.871 – that is all I heard.
…Make that 3.817…
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