<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div><span></span></div><div>I did a radio test with Skip on 2 meters and we made good contact. However, there was a lot of background noise.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441296283798_6119">We tried 70CM and made contact with More noise than 2 meters. FYI 73's K5FRT<br> </div><div style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Roger Klein <rwklein@katyweb.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> darryl@straderstudio.com; 'Mail List for the W5SFA Radio Club' <w5sfa@w5sfa.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 3, 2015 9:37 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [W5SFA] Wednesday Night Net Checkins<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv1723382404"><style>#yiv1723382404 #yiv1723382404 --
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#yiv1723382404 </style><div><div class="yiv1723382404WordSection1"><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">There seemed to be quite a bit or noise last night during the net on the 2m Bellville repeater. When no one was transmitting, it looked like there were signals coming in on my rig's meter. As of right now (9:19am Thursday) it seems pretty quiet, I just see a little bit of noise - nothing like it was last night.</span></div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Maybe we are getting interference from another repeater on the same frequency? The closest repeater on 145.41 Mhz is League City, about 90 miles.</span></div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Dan, any insight into this?</span></div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv1723382404yqt2444965969" id="yiv1723382404yqt51361"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> w5sfa [mailto:w5sfa-bounces@w5sfa.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Darryl Strader Studio<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 3, 2015 8:05 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> 'Mail List for the W5SFA Radio Club'<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [W5SFA] Wednesday Night Net Checkins</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">What I noticed / have noticed is that on all other repeaters that I listen to, when there is no one using the repeater the noise level is zero, but if you listen to the 145.410 it has a constant noise level present at all times. I don’t know what type it is or if its normal but that is the only one that has that present.</span></div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Darryl Strader Studio, LLC</span></div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">281-646-7300</span></div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;"><a href="http://www.straderstudio.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">www.straderstudio.com</a></span></div></div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> w5sfa [<a href="mailto:w5sfa-bounces@w5sfa.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:w5sfa-bounces@w5sfa.org">mailto:w5sfa-bounces@w5sfa.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Roger Klein<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 2, 2015 8:15 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:w5sfa@w5sfa.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:w5sfa@w5sfa.org">w5sfa@w5sfa.org</a><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> [W5SFA] Wednesday Night Net Checkins</div></div></div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal">We had six checkins to the net tonight:</div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal">K5FRT - Jack</div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal">KG5ITZ - Darryl</div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal">KC5LSP - Dave (on 70cm)</div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal">WB5RFQ - Gil</div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal">K1PEC - Ron (on 2m and 70cm)</div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal">W5RAC - Ray</div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal">Was there anyone else trying to check in that we didn't hear? All in all, things seemed to work better than last week. </div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal">Jack, it seemed like your contact was intermittent, but when I heard you, you were loud and clear. Ray, I could copy you, just barely - maybe an antenna issue? Let me know if either of you want to try a contact sometime and we can do some more testing.</div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal">Ron and I did a test after the net, and we didn't have any problem communicating on VHF. Transmitting on UHF (which I did not use during the net), my signal was intermittent. Looks like I need to get my antenna a bit higher for UHF to get into the Bellville repeater (about 20 miles), it is surrounded by trees.</div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal">Thanks to everyone who checked in tonight!</div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1723382404MsoNormal">Roger N5RWK</div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="yqt2444965969" id="yqt29510">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">w5sfa mailing list<br clear="none"><a href="mailto:w5sfa@w5sfa.org" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:w5sfa@w5sfa.org">w5sfa@w5sfa.org</a><br clear="none"><a href="http://mail.w5sfa.org/mailman/listinfo/w5sfa_w5sfa.org" target="_blank" shape="rect">http://mail.w5sfa.org/mailman/listinfo/w5sfa_w5sfa.org</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>