Albers wrote:
I'm wondering whether some experienced net ops could chime in with
suggestions for getting more QSP going on the weekly Elecraft CW Net?
I was unable to get into the 20m net yesterday, couldn't hear Kevin at
all, and most everyone was weak. I second your request.
Anyway, on last night's 40m net (was busy with family at 20m net
time) I could barely hear Kevin but there were a couple of stations
that were very loud to me, and I suspect might have been able to hear
me. I tried sending "pse QSP" once or twice (is that the right way to
ask for help??) but didn't want to do that too much for fear of
stepping on someone.
Commercial practice would have been something like:
KMJB KMJB KMJB DE KULI KULI KULI INT QSP KOK K
probably on 500 Kc. KULI asks KMJB [who he apparently hears well
enough] if he will relay free of charge to coastal station KOK. The
prosign INT [di di dah dit dah] was an interrogatory meaning what
follows is a question. INT disappeared somewhere along the line,
replaced by "?" at the end, although we still heard INT when I worked at
KOK as a HS senior. Ships then had 4-letter calls, coastal stations had
3, and the CG stations' 3-letter calls all started with "N".
I wonder, would it work for NCS to ask "any QSP?" or some such, just
before "last call?"
When Tom can make the net, it works very well. When Kevin turns it to
him, he usually calls by direction since he is using a beam. Of course,
Tom can't always make it so having a couple of alternates on-deck would
help.
Before closing the net, both Kevin and the relay[s] could send something
like "ECN DE KD5ONS QSP?" as a signal for anyone who has heard someone
trying to QNI to jump in. One way to reply might be "ECN DE <urcall>
QNI <hiscall> [<hiscall2> etc] K" Kevin might reply "<urcall> QSP K"
and you would then call the guy[s], get the QNI, and then pass it all to
Kevin.
ECN is a little different than traffic nets. In classic traffic nets,
each station checks in and lists his traffic, and the NCS begins pairing
them up off frequency with the stations who are going to take it. In
NTS, a section net NCS parks the station[s] who will QNI to the region
net off frequency and stacks those with traffic out of the section onto
those frequencies.
For ECN, Kevin takes each QNI as a separate short QSO. After checking
in, some QRT and some stick around. Those would be the people to QSP.
This will all get better as the sun starts getting more active again,
but right now, it's hard on 20, and noisy on 40.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2007 CQP Oct 6-7
- www.cqp.org
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