It being Christmas Eve, I figured I had some time to tune around, and thought I’d see if the Ohio Masonic Fellowship Net was still meeting on 3865 as advertised on the Hiram’s Hams website.
Just before 0230 UTC, I heard K8DHC identify way down in the noise. Of course part of the noise was a couple of yahoos yakking on 3863, so they were bleeding over into 3865 for me and pretty much ruining the entire experience, but my punky antenna and the general condx may have had something to do with that, too.
So I don’t know if the Masonic net went off or not, but I didn’t hear much after that one identification other than somebody tuning up and someone saying something along the lines of, “Goodness gracious!” without identifying. (They were, however, 5 and 9 from Indianapolis.)
It gives me a bit of a thrill, though, to think there might actually still be an HF Masonic net running on Sunday evenings. I’ve never heard the one that supposedly runs weekdays at 1600 UTC on 14328.
So, are there actually any other Masonic HF nets running? I’m not talking about on Echolink — that’s not radio.
Earlier in the evening, I heard K6MYC booming in from California on 7134ish, talking about antennas. I suppose he would know, I went and looked him up on QRZ and he’s quite the interesting fellow.
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