TSN Corner 

Texas Slow Net (Daily) 1945 CT 3552 KHz +/- QRM

http://www.atcweb.com/tsn/Texas_Slow_Net.htm

Pat Allison, KD5TXD   (pja@atcweb.com)

TSN Net Manager

The telegraph key image is courtesy of FCIT

 

Greetings from the Wild Horse Desert – home of your TSN Manager

Hi to all!!  Seems like July went by really fast.  Band conditions in my part of Texas have been totally rotten.  I have talked Arley into letting me call TSN on Wednesday night and Sunday night.  That will give us three different locations for the NCS, and three different angles to see how well the skip works.  KB5TCH, Carroll in Douglasville is calling on Friday night and Arley picks up the rest of the nights from OKC.  Please give me some feed back on how this is working out from your areas.   

 

I still need to get our TSN web page up.  Sorry I am so slow.  I am not a computer kind of gal.

July 2009

TSN Roster

Call

Name

City

State

Call

Name

N5AF

SAM

Cleveland

TX

KE5LOT

Club

W5AG

Arch

Lafayette

LA

WA5LOU

Lou

KD5CB

Mike

Hillsboro

TX

KD5MMM

Phil

K0CMH

Craig

St Louis

MO

WA5MUF

Bill

W0CXX

Steve

Cedar Rapids

IA

N7NET

Scott

W5DY

Rodney

Goliad

TX

WB5NKC

Arley

N5EL

Floyd

Temple

TX

WB5NKD

Pat

K5END

Larry

Spring

TX

N5NVP

Jim

W5ESE

Scott

Dripping Springs

TX

K4OSO

Milt

WD0ESF

Mike

Medicine Lodge

KS

K9PUI

Rich

WB9FLU

Bill

Columbus

IN

N5PWG

Jay

WB5GFU

Al

Alamo

TX

KB5TCH

Carroll

KD5GM

Louis

Deer Park

TX

W5TMO

Mike

AE5GT

Clint

Wimberley

TX

KA5TJS

Allen

KA8IXC

Dan

Victoria (KF5AS)

TX

KD5TXD

Pat

AA5J

Lee

Plano

TX

KD5VGJ

Jay

W5JBV

Mike

Panama City

FL

W5VXI

Dave

K5JE

Earl

Claremore

OK

N5XGG

Joe

K6JT

Steve

Plano (W0CXX)

TX

KM5YQ

David

W5JKK

George

Bethany

OK

AC5Z

Bert

 

Welcome to New and Visiting Stations

We didn’t have any new folks visiting TSN this month.  Part of that is our poor band conditions.  Also, I need to make time to just play on the CW bands and invite folks to come join us on TSN.  If we all make some invitations to friends who maybe are interested in CW but feel uncomfortable about jumping in we could get a bit of excitement going.  There is always a need for CW traffic handlers to progress to the other CW nets and join the traffic handling efforts.  I am not the best CW op around, but I think I am holding my own and I owe much of that to Arley and the slow nets helping me build the courage to participate on TEX.  We all need a code buddy and Floyd, N5EL, has been my code buddy over the years.  Please think about helping a friend get into CW.

 

Thanks to all who participated

We appreciate all who have checked into the Texas Slow Net.  Hope you can continue to check in and participate.  Please bring your friends who want to learn CW traffic handling.  Our net control stations will try to slow down to your sending speed.  Please list a message for one of your friends or family members.  Handling CW traffic is a learning by doing sort of thing. 

 

Also, I have asked David, KM5YQ, to help us out by being our TSN liaison station when he checks into TEX.  If you are interested in trying your hand at sending one of the training QST’s, please let me know.   What better way to learn than by doing?

 

TSN Activity Report for July, 2009

Total Sessions 31, Total Checkins 157, Total Traffic 35 by 12 different operators.

 

July QNS

 

QNI

Callsign

Name

QTH

QNI

Callsign

Name

QTH

30

WB5NKC

Arley

OK, Oklahoma City

9

KD5MMM

Phil

TX, Fentress

30

WB5NKD

Pat

OK, Oklahoma City

6

N7NET

Scott

TX, Allen

22

KD5TXD

Pat

TX, Kingsville

5

KB5TCH

Carroll

TX, Douglassville

21

KM5YQ

David

TX, Irving

3

W5VXI

Dave

Caddo Mills, TX

15

AA5JW

Carl

TX, Stafford

2

N5XGG

Joe

TX, Colmesneil

13

W5ESE

Scott

TX, Dripping Springs

1

N5NVP

Jim

LA, Scott

73,

Pat  KD5TXD

01 August 2009

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