the frequencies in use yeah thank you the frequencies in use you know the free resumes
in use so running a net on 160 meters can be uh a daunting task to start a net more complicated
than running a net but if it's a starter net you'll need three or four other like-minded
individuals that you'll have probably met on one of the qrs head forum maybe probably you're being
rude to each other actually what you need is a fox operated system particularly on 160 meter nets
because 160 meters now it's all about the dynamics as if you're sitting around a bar having a pint
with your friends and you can all chip in that's the important thing and the other thing is just
like sitting in a bar table everything you say has got to be like a private joke because if you
actually had an intelligent conversation people would come in and you'd have more break stations
so at the duly appointed time one of you you're probably all on the frequency one of them just
says even in all another clever thing you could say would be who's here then if there's someone
already on the frequency bit of a technique to get rid of them so they're on the frequency and
you just butt in you go hello it's the frequency news and the guy will go yeah frequencies in use
just checking the frequencies clear and the guy going yeah no no no the frequency's in use
okay nothing heard the frequencies in use yeah on frequency who's here for the second world war net
the frequency is in use then your mate will come in oh hi john how are you doing yeah i'm fine
yeah just waiting for jack the frequencies in use yeah thank you the frequencies in use you say no
all the three was he was in use basically you'll just completely drive him nuts and then ideally
your other mates even though the guy's 30 over s9 really strong just pretend they can barely hear
somebody so i think he's clearing the frequency for us yes that's what i thought jack was he was
works a treat the guy just probably give his gear away and give up the hobby to be honest but
who cares it's your net yeah so let me give you an example of a typical sort of private joke qso
that happens on a 160 meter net it's very exciting here we go uh john did bathroom have a good time
uh yeah yeah she did well well worth it jack yeah you were you treating her again there
joe nawya well well i i had to see you know i i i should get one for mildred you know
ah it's a good price like a yard about your new boat anchor jack no fred that's it's your wise
his lottery ticket didn't come in that's why he doesn't need to win the lottery
tell that to his tailor actually 1939's a good is a good frequency because it's the year that
the second world war started in the uk so now some of your friends might be slightly forgetful about
what frequency is and that they'll be able to see that in and then you could call yourself the
second world war net or something stupid like that now because of the band police the 160 meter boys
have got used to the idea that a lot of people are listening to them now so what we need to do is at
least say our call sign ideally stretch the rules as much as you can but at least say your call sign
the tip i've discovered you say a call sign but completely and utterly unintelligibly so if my
call is g two e a n the last thing i'm gonna do is golf two echo alpha november no i'm gonna go
g2 en people what the hell was that the trick is if you hear one of your members give out
his call sign immediately come in using your box just cut it in like that and then give yours as
well so if your call sign is um g3 rmn by the way i'm just making these up right just for example
to give you a good tip so you can get on 160. he doesn't say golf three radio mic november he goes
g3 ironman you see so what you get then is uh g2an g3 yeah yeah and that what people can you'd have
to record it and play it back several thousand times or give it to the forensic department
the good news is no one will ever get to know what your call sign is it's still within the rules you
see now if you have to give out your call sign kind of a phonetic way because somebody actually
wants to know it because they were very strong and they came in you know break station whatever
you need to invent a completely bizarre way of demonstrating your callsign because you're very
clever right so if you're g for m o w g for mike oscar whiskey you want to create some crazy little
saying and you go to the acronyms dictionary on google right acronym and you put in your call
sign the nd equals sign it will come up with things like mow is like man of war you know
so you can say yeah what's your call yeah yeah g4 man of war pardon g4 man of war i just told
you yeah just confuse them all right the last thing you want is a break station coming in
annoying you so the easy way to deal with that is just pretend you can't hear them and this is how i
would normally do it he can't afford one that's why break break mike three mike charlie x-ray
mic three mike charlie x-ray break i i i think i detected a break station very weak junkin can you
hear him can't hear anybody here all right what about you patrick uh here anybody ain't enough
nothing nothing in ireland no well i must admit i thought we would see continentals are probably
breaking in but we'll give them a shot shall we go over the break who's who's calling uh hello
thanks for letting me in this is mike three mike charlie x-ray are you all very strong here i'm in
sully hull uh my name is callum back to you from m3 mike charlie x-ray yeah all right uh uh caleb
i think he said at m3 something uh yeah anyone else copy him can't hear anybody here nothing
in ireland no you're not you're not going out too well mate or i'm sorry about it just above
the noise bit of advice fair antenna all right um john what were you saying about the lottery
and with that most stations just go away you see which is handy a little bit of a warning on power
in the uk the power limit on 160 meters of the voice in the main from 1.85 i believe
i'd have to look it up right now because i completely ignore this yeah i don't want to
use 30 watts or something on top band i mean how am i going to be 30 over s9 into ireland
if i've got to run 30 watts no it's a minimum you run your 200 watt radio flat out ideally
you stick 50 watts into your linear amplifier and produce anywhere between 500 1 000 how else
are you going to be so strong you don't tell anybody because you never talk about science-based
things on your net anyway the last thing you want to do is actually talk about science right this is
all about complete mumbo-jumbo just to confuse the planet if you must go down the science route then
you could talk about maybe a collins radio or your old father's cw straight key that you've renovated
i mean that's okay or you could talk about to balanced feeder and then intimidate the listener
by discussing that one of the oak trees in the east lawn i think you can get rid of but you've
got your backup doublet on it for for 160 meters which you rarely use because ideally you need to
drill a hole through the wall into the library and then through the staff quarters and finally get
into your shack intimidation techniques work very well like that and just don't talk about science
the other thing is you never actually talk about other bands for a start off i mean
you only need a single band radio if you're a top band guy and so if somebody you know accidentally
mentions the fact they're on you know 40 meters playing ft8 bank them just blank them okay
then that'll shock them into realizing that they've made a catastrophic boo-boo
by talking about hf and digital modes because the thing is you can't admit to actually having
a computer on your desktop if somebody wants something to write it down or on and everything
you just go well i'll just get my notepad and you can hear the scribbles going on as they as
they give something down i mean the bottom line is if you actually want to have a real conversation
with someone uh in your top band net phone them and it's the same with log books you don't don't
run a log book it's as easy as that you have various scraps of paper and envelopes that you
just sort of willy-nilly put um call signs on you know and names and qths and then you can even brag
about the fact i found an envelope with this call sign and a name don't even know what it was for
oh you know that sort of thing then you come to the closed down etiquette because at the end of
this net somehow you've got to get out of it and i think from personal experience you'll just shut
down the net as fast as it started one of the guys after about an hour and a half it should
just go well i'm off now that's the trigger yeah i'm out of here see you next week boys yeah bye 73
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