Arizona HF Nets?

[KF5NZF]

I am in the process of compiling a list of nets in surrounding states to keep in a folder, and for NM, TX, CO and UT it was easy, but for AZ I can't seem to find a list of HF nets on the internet. I found the Happy Hour net and ATEN nets surfing the dial and listening, but no info online.

Anybody have any sites to go to or just net info for my folder?

[AE5ZD]

I am in the process of compiling a list of nets in surrounding states to keep in a folder, and for NM, TX, CO and UT it was easy, but for AZ I can't seem to find a list of HF nets on the internet. I found the Happy Hour net and ATEN nets surfing the dial and listening, but no info online.

Anybody have any sites to go to or just net info for my folder?

Don't limit yourself to surrounding states, you may very well reach out further than you think!

http://www.ac6v.com/nets.htm

[KF5NZF]

Don't limit yourself to surrounding states, you may very well reach out further than you think!

http://www.ac6v.com/nets.htm

With an inverted V only 20' off the ground and 100w barefoot, I'm pretty much stuck to 400-600 miles under most conditions, at least until I put up something higher.

[K0RGR]

Well, there's a guy in the ALbuquerque area who checkins into our weekly 80 meter digital net running less than 50 watts to a similar antenna - we're in Minnesota.

I was surprised at the daytime 40 meter nets out there while traveling around.

[AE5ZD]

With an inverted V only 20' off the ground and 100w barefoot, I'm pretty much stuck to 400-600 miles under most conditions, at least until I put up something higher.

Bah! G5RV jr at 30 feet with 100ft coax at 100w and I have hit every continent, and am 3 states from WAS. Don't think it doesn't get out. Mine may not be the best, but I'm sure there are far more with lesser antennas that have done more.

Check out the arrl propagation site for charts that show where you could be working. The bands change by the minute, and you may be surprised what's open in the odd hours. www.arrl.com/propagation

Good luck!!

[KF5NZF]

Bah! G5RV jr at 30 feet with 100ft coax at 100w and I have hit every continent, and am 3 states from WAS. Don't think it doesn't get out. Mine may not be the best, but I'm sure there are far more with lesser antennas that have done more.

Check out the arrl propagation site for charts that show where you could be working. The bands change by the minute, and you may be surprised what's open in the odd hours. www.arrl.com/propagation

Good luck!!

I guess I need to experiment more. I've only been licensed for about six months and working HF for only 2-3 months, and only recently figured out that a manual tuner a friend is lending me doesn't work well with the faulty SWR meter he also lent me. Luckily the Icom 718 was nice and turned the power down to prevent burnups, but even with that I was getting out 450 miles under good conditions.

I started using the Icom's internal meter to tune and with full 100w out, now contacts around NM and AZ are much more consistent, but I didn't think to see about getting further out.

Current antenna is a fan dipole cut for roughly 80m and 40m, seems to tune up well for 80-30, but can't get below 2.8 SWR on the 20m band, so I'm not going to mess around there yet. Will probably build a 1/4 wave vertical for 20m in the near future to see if I can get out better in the day on there.

[N0AZZ]

Do yourself a favor a favor buy a "Quality" manual tuner more than you think you will ever need. Look at it as a lifetime investment which it really is, then think about how old you are now and how long you may live then divide by that number of years to see cost per year. My very best QRP tuner is the lowest loss one I own which happens to be a Palstar AT4K that I wished I had bought in the very beginning it ended up being a lot cheaper than all I had gone through before it.

When your able if you enjoy building antennas a must have is an antenna analyzer like the MFJ-259B is the least costly and works quite well a real asset in the shack. I would be lost without mine I have the 269 model that covers UHF also the 259 covers HF/VHF.

Good luck and good DX or States the best of all.

[N3AWS]

The ARRL used to have a compilation of traffic nets. The copy I had (and have long since misplaced in multiple military moves) is long out of date. I would guess they would have some info on their website, though.

73, Jim N3AWS

[KF5NZF]

Bah! G5RV jr at 30 feet with 100ft coax at 100w and I have hit every continent, and am 3 states from WAS. Don't think it doesn't get out. Mine may not be the best, but I'm sure there are far more with lesser antennas that have done more.

Check out the arrl propagation site for charts that show where you could be working. The bands change by the minute, and you may be surprised what's open in the odd hours. www.arrl.com/propagation

Good luck!!

I deeply appreciate the encouragement. I took your advice, read up on propagation, and used the reports available that ARRL links to. Tuned up to 15m and managed to talk to the USS Missouri club station in Pearl Harbor with an S2 signal report, but readable.

Thanks to everybody for the help and encouragement.