KF5RHI, maybe you can walk some of us through the LOTW. I got my certificate installed, but now I don't know how to start putting in my contacts.

I really like doing things with pen and paper here. I like doing it the way so many years ago did. So, I keep a paper log and a qrz log and I send out qsl cards. Well, I will as soon as the mail runs tomorrow since I just got my cards in the mail today. Can't wait to find someone to restore my late '60s Drake set so I can use some vintage tech on the air.

John Galt, I'm trying to figure out LOTW as well. I'm not liking it even a little bit. Right now I'm sitting on the couch filling out my new qsl cards to send out. I think I like that the best, but I know I need to learn the LOTW thing. And I have every intention of setting aside a certain time every weekend to try and make contact with folks on here. I think I'll try to find a time during Friday nights for 20/40/80 and a time during Saturday day for 10, since techs have privelages there. I think I will try to post by Wednesday when I'm going to be on so folks have time to make plans. I'll monitor this site as well during my CQ call to see who can hear me but I can't hear. I might even post a link to my facebook in case anyone wants to friend me. Just listen for kilo foxtrot five tango juliet charlie!

I've worked /7 on 12 and 10 meters. Two different operators, though. One in Washington state and the other was Arizona, I believe. I don't go hunting them down, I just happened to come across them both. On 12, he was calling and calling CQ and no one was answering. Almost the same on 10m. So I guess I lucked out and found them both as they just started calling CQ.

Odd to see times in Eastern. I figured all times would be UTC since that's pretty standard. I'll try and check in sometime.

For some reason I haven't been getting reply notifications in my email. I had no clue all you guys were posting! This weekend I'm having my house painted, so I'll be at home all day Saturday and Sunday. I'll try to post whenever I'm on, that way someone can try and catch me. Daytime I'll probably be on 10 or 17. Right now I'm rarely on at night, since that's when the kids are home and I spend time with them and the wife.

When you decide, give me a frequency and a time and I'll try to make it. Please give me a little time for my phone to get the email that someone has replied to this topic. Also, please pic a frequency that's available to General class or Technician class. I'm not an Extra. I'm KF5TJC.

I'm off that frequency. A Canadian station is somewhere close to that frequency and I'm getting tons of people calling for him and bleeding over onto .520. I'll try again another day this weekend.

I'm on now calling cq if anyone wants to try and make contact.

One of these days we should try and meet up on a frequency . Once I can get the family used to a radio schedule, I'm going to start posting on here when I'm on the radio and what frequency. That way I can get to know some folks and put voices with the words.

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Are you on in the evenings?

I'm not on a regular schedule right now, so I'm on when I can get away from family duties right now. I haven't been on HF enough to have a favorite band or anything, so I just scan around, listen and try to learn what to do and what to say. What band do you like to spend your time on?

New here. Got my tech license in Jan of '13 and general in Nov of '13. Finally got my HF setup done this weekend (2/28/14) and made some contacts. Call is KF5TJC in Northwest Arkansas. Hopefully I'll be able to talk to some of you guys on the air.

New to HF and in the last few days I got my vertical up and made contacts in Poland and France on 10m and W1AW/7 in Washington state. Can't remember off hand what band that was on.