Re: [SARES] [Fwd: Special Exercise on SPECS Net Monday Night]

Special Exercise on SPECS Net Monday NightI will try to do so.

My packet station is 45 watts on 2 meters (but about 10db loss I guess in the 30 feet of Radio Shack RG-58 coax into the American Legion J-Pole on the roof).

I'll try to use this instead of my usual handi-talkie and see what I can hear tomorrow.

  - Skip AA6WK


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert Gundrum 
  To: SARES-list@INTERNET. sunnyvaleares.org 
  Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:09 PM
  Subject: [SARES] [Fwd: Special Exercise on SPECS Net Monday Night]


      If you monitor the SPECS (145.270) net on Monday evenings, here is some information about a change in procedure for tomorrows (2/25/2008) net.  I realize that individual members do not participate that much in each SPECS main net, but would be interested on how you are able to receive the other stations.  It would be nice if SARES had an idea of what the simplex coverage is in Sunnyvale for SPECS, if the repeater should fail.

      Therefore, I am requesting ~IF~ you monitor SPECS tomorrow evening to send me an e-mail letting me know how you were able to receive.  I need to know where you are (exact address, not "at home") and a guestimate on the number of stations (cities) you hear, and how well (scale of 1 <poor>- 10 <good>) you hear them.

  Thanks in advance for your assistance in this survey ~73~

  Bob ~W6MOL~


  We will be conducting a special exercise this coming Monday night, simulating loss of the SPECS 2-m repeater. The net will be conducted simplex on the output frequency of the repeater. Net control will be operating on our most sensitive transceiver at MTV EOC ham shack, 25 watts on a 50 ft tall antenna. We hope we will be able to reach almost everyone. Once you get to your local net, you might want to poll your people about how well they heard the main net control operator. I'd be interested in the results.

  This will mainly affect DEC, Board members, ECs and AECs and those with announcements. Please inform your AECs. 

  The repeater will actually be disabled after the introductory paragraph of the script. It will remain disabled until after the net closed. When your local net control operators report your check-ins, they will do so on simplex, so they will need a reasonable good radio system. If they fail to raise us on simplex, reports can be made on the UHF repeater.  

  Dru/Scott/Maynard, if you have a flea market announcement, please make it brief because net control will need to repeat it for all to hear.

  Regards. 

  Jerry Haag 
  K6GAC 
  SPECS Training Officer 




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