Regular net activity

[G3XUX]

This is a request for G6GVI to add details of a regular net in the excellent "Regular net activity on 70MHz" table.

I posted details of the net back in October down in the "Skeds, Operating notifications etc." forum. I will now (cheekily) repeat that post here.

Since that October newsflash, the net has been running well and sometimes lasts for 3 hours.

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I got *volunteered* to run a weekly 4m net in the Solent area. We've been running since May 2011.

Details are: Sunday morning 09:00 (local time).
Mode: FM.
Polarisation: vertical.
Working freq.: 70.325MHz (after an initial announcement on 70.450MHz).

The decision to use 70.325MHz (in the All Modes segment) is based on the 2011 RSGB bandplan.

We have contributors in: West Sussex, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, Dorset & Wiltshire.

The location of the control station G3XUX/P varies from week to week so as to favour our more remote users.

All welcome. Tell your friends.
73
Ted

[G3XUX]

I'm happy to report that this Sunday morning net is still going strong and approaching its first anniversary.

But we still haven't made it to the main list of 4m nets assembled by G6GVI elsewhere on this site (sigh).

Details of the net are still as listed in my earlier posting.

Come and join us.

[G3XUX]

Yes, we are still quite a busy 4m community down here on the UK south coast.

This weekend there was flurry of activity on all bands (including 4m) from the quite new Fort Purbrook Amateur Radio Club
(see http://www.fparc.org.uk/) operating from the roof of our home: a 19th century fort just north of Portsmouth, Hampshire.

In my role as the customary Sunday morning FM net controller, I ran the net today using the FPARC club callsign M0GZN instead of G3XUX/P. All of us at the fort were delighted to make contact with the roving Ron G7EPR, a regular net contributor. He was 50 miles away from Portsmouth at a campsite in Newhaven and he was pounding in at 58.

Ron often visits Newhaven and wonders if there are any 4m FM stations nearby?

BTW, I'm still dropping cheeky hints that our 4m FM net on the south coast should appear on this website in the "Regular net activity on 70MHz" table.

[G4ASR]

The net is now featured on that page Ted

[G3XUX]

Yes, it's great to see the details posted out there where people can see what we're up to on Sundays. This is highly appreciated by us all down here on the south coast and serves nicely as a celebration of the 4m net's 1st anniversary.

Although the net location is listed as Portsmouth, this may be misleading. I do exert myself to reach a wider 4m public by going /P on the hills of Hampshire. We've got contributors in 4 counties.

73