HF Nets

 This has been discussed before elsewhere but HF nets are so bizarre. Archaic websites. Obscure membership structures. Shooting fish in a barrel. but simultaneously inefficient where it takes one hour to get one turn. 

My main gripe though is the signal reports. If you have to ask a relay for the call sign and repeat the RST multiple times, you were not a 5-5. 

I'm actually enjoying this though as it helps me work out some quirks in my home set up while I get ready for more base operations. I found a net that meets late at night so I currently have something to do other than watch youtube. I'll get WAS through them I guess then got for it through LOTW. 

My set up so far is the EFHW I installed in the last post which runs through the window, I placed scrap extension cord in the window track to allow the wire to slip through without crimping it while getting an almost complete seal. That goes to my Yaesu FT991A which is hooked up to the computer via USB and my Heil headset. On the Heil adapter I have a 1/4" Y adapter so I can use a DIY hand switch or a foot switch for PTT. 

Since this new set up, I have added some 3.5mm extension cables so the audio cables from the antenna to my right run to my left where the headset cable connects. I'm going to build an additional Heil adapter and place it and duplicate PTT switches in my Go-Kit. Then I can just unhook the radio and my headset to go portable, the rest remains on the desk full time.

Next I'll have to get fully setup in netlogger and figure out all the QSL stuff. I thought I had it figured out with TQSL and QRZ but apparently that's not the preferred method for these types.

Never stop learning.