I would like to inform you that Pieter Andre de la Porte (PA4P) sailing in the Caribean with his boat the Stargazer was run over by a fishingboat while he and his wife were in their dinghy. His wife was wounded but Pieter unfortunately died on the impact. The accident happenend Sunday July 20th. Pieter will be cremated in the Netherlands, Monday, August 11th. I know that Pieter has been active on 14300.net so I found it appropriate to let you know.

Herman Romer - PA9HR
member of the board of Pieter's local hamradio club in The Hague, the Netherlands.

I checked into the Intercon Net a little while ago, with KC5AGO being the net control. I said I was just checking in, didn't have any traffic, and I thanked KC5AGO because he was working overtime as net control. He then came back to me, mentioning that there was some noise on my signal but he had 100% copy on me.

I had no idea why there'd be noise on my signal, but didn't think too much of it. Next I went to turn my transmit power down so that I could retune my antenna (a small, transmitting loop tuned with a big variable capacitor). I was shocked when I saw that the power didn't need to be turned down...it was already down as low as it goes, on 5 watts! I guess that accounts for the noise on my signal, and I got a kick out of the fact that he KC5AGO could understand me at all with just 5 watts. He is in Texas and I'm in Brooklyn, NY. Guess I was QRP without even knowing it.

Thanks, Steve for your ongoing commitment to the 14300.net website. It just keeps getting better.

While I know you enjoy it, it also shows a great deal of hard work and dedication. The tools continue to be valuable every single week of the year.

73

John

Général proposal for 14300 khz to be more effective. (like 500khz)

1 - Silence périod 00 to 03 every hour on the 14300 khz to received and transmitt emergency messages..
2 - No QSO only emergency call and traffic on 14300 khz.
3 - When an ham-radio station is calling on 14300 khz he has to be clear the frequency. The ham-radio network on duty or other network on 14300 khz has to give to him another frequency to conduct the QSO or TRAFFIC.

O. MARSAN F6DGU AMARAD France
WWW.AMARAD.ORG
8/24/2007

We are please let you know the NETMAR LE RESEAU DES MARINS RADIOS is set up
YOU CAN FIND INFORMATIONS CONNECTING OFFICIAL WEBSITE NETMAR
http://olivier.marsan.free.fr/RMAR

73 best regards
O.MARSAN F6DGU chairman AMARAD FRANCE
www.amarad.org
amarad@cyberelec.fr


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The net operator that is on Saturday at 1900 hrs ( WB6LNH) is a brass operator and acts very smart with any low power station...we can not all have 2K ....

Bob W4EHZ

Hello Everyone,
Today was my first time checking into the 14.300 Net and it is a great net, The NCS i talked to was Rooney (6Y5RP)which i ment for the first time, he is a great NCS and hope to get on the net as often as i can.
73 all
Terry - KC2NZW

can any one help me with this

73 john m0hem

My daughter is graduating from HS this Summer, and she caught the sailing bug early in her life. Weather permitting, she and I will be sailing from Huntington, NY to Bermuda the end of June (I have done it before, it'll be her fist time). As a new ham radio operator (KC2 ONO)with a Yaesu 817ND (5W power, only), I have been able to listen in on 14300KHZ with mixed results, but I have not been able to establish any connection. The antenna tuner says the antenna is tunes sufficiently well (1:2 or better), so I assume it has to do with power. I intend to get a Yaesu 857 or Icom 706 MKIIG for the boat, which have 100W. Can anybody give me any suggestions?

Sincerely %26 73

Michael (KC2ONO)

it doesnt want my email address so

even i check up on this site now and then .. great job steve thanks
tom