Tom, KC8QGJ, above,
claims to be retired, but we think he was just too ugly
for his job, so they released him into the wild where he could
spend more time with his Ham radio
friends!
A note
from your webmister, N4UJW. Since it is impossible for me to
be with the 1721 GROUP each night.... Please
keep me informed via email about any frequency changes, news worthy
items of interest or updates on this page for the Group.
I
will do my best to get them posted here! In Subject window of email type (1721 group news or
update!)
The
1721 HF ROUNDTABLE GROUP “Yesterday,
My XYL said she’d leave me if I didn’t give up ham radio.
Over.” Logo (W4WTO) Click his call to see his
site
FLASH! 1721 GROUP MOVES TO 160
METERS Effective
NOW! As we enter
what has been estimated to be a long bottom for Sun Spot
Cycle-23, we have temporarily moved the 1721 Group
activities from 40-meters
to 1.871MHz
+- [160-Meters] beginning around
8:00PM Eastern time every night. Listening for U. Frequency as of 12/07
update!
"Just a
big Ham Radio Family" Feel
at home! OPEN TO ALL LICENSED AMATEUR
RADIO OPERATORS! NOT A NET! Working all States, Canada and THE
WORLD! OLD FREQUENCIES
BELOW: HEARD MOST NIGHTS ON 40 METERS Time + - 8:00 CST 7.260mhz + - LSB PRIMARY FREQ Temp Freq 7.271 to
7.272 7.281.5Mhz secondary
Rag Chew 9:00am Central on Temp Freq Also upper end of 75 meters 3.980 +
- JOIN OUR GROUP! Check in just one time and you're a
member! AUDIO
SAMPLES click here AUDIO CLASSICS! click here
WHAT IS THE
1721 GROUP? "Just a big ham radio
family" Our (your) group presently is
composed of hams from all over the U.S and Canada who join in friendly an
very informal QSO'S between each other in an orderly "roundtable"
style. No one is king of the
hill and every on gets their turn/s. You might say we have
organized
confusion! Hi! Tom,
KC8QGJ, CALLS CQ TO THE GROUP FROM OHIO STARTING
ABOUT
8:00PM EDST AND IS ASSISTED BY KC8SGO, WB9GQW and KB3HQV or
others WHO KEEP TOM GOING!
THE GROUP WAS ORIGINALLY
STARTED JANUARY 27, 2002 WITH JUST A handful OF HAMS
INCLUDING: KC8QGJ TOM KC8SGO
MARK N1ZNE FRANK W9KBR
BRUCE KB2DYB DENNIS WB9GQW ED (relays)
This guy can hear an ant sneeze a mile away! KB3HQV RAY (LOADS OF HELP, hay! hay!) K8WLF (FRITZ) They ALL deserve lots of credit for getting it all together,
keeping it going and spreading the word! (If we have not listed others
that are due credit, please let Tom, KC8QGJ,
know.)
IF YOU WANT JUST A SIGNAL
REPORT.....CHECK IN! TRYING A NEW
ANTENNA?......CHECK IN! WANT TO MAKE NEW HAM
FRIENDS?...CHECK IN! COLLECTING QSL
CARDS?...CHECK IN! NEW TO GENERAL
CLASS?....CHECK IN! WE WILL WELCOME YOU! WANT TO WORK SOME
STATESIDE "DX"?....CHECK
IN! JUST WANT TO GAB AND SIT A SPELL?....CHECK
IN! AND ON AND ON AND ON.......PLEASE CHECK
IN! WANT TO CHECK IN?......CHECK
IN!
MOST NIGHTS THE GROUP CONTINUES UNTIL THE
WEE HOURS OR THE MORNING OR UNTIL THE LAST PERSON AWAKE CLOSES THE GROUP!
CAUTION, SOME MEMBERS ARE HEAVY COFFEE
DRINKERS!
SO....IF YOU'RE INTO LATE NIGHT AND
EARLY MORNING QSO'S WITH YOUR FELLOW "HAM FAMILY", WON'T YOU PLEASE JOIN
US FOR THE FUN?
(FOOTNOTE ADDED
BY YOUR WEBMISTER) "IF YOU ADD THE NUMBERS TOGETHER IN THE
1721 GROUP, YOU GET
11....A LUCKY NUMBER FOR YOU!"
TOM,
KC8QGJ, ASKED ME TO GIVE LOTS OF CREDIT TO MYSELF, (N4UJW), FOR THIS PAGE,
HOWEVER....... IN THE PROCESS OF DOING
THAT, I SPILLED COFFEE ALL OVER THE KEYBOARD WHICH GOT DOWN INTO THE
COMPONENTS, SHORTED SOMETHING OUT, SPARKS FLEW, SMOKE POURED OUT AND THE
KEY BOARD WENT WILD, SHOOTING KEYS EVERYWHERE INCLUDING THE ONE THAT HIT
MY XYL BETWEEN HER EYES RESULTING IN SOME WORDS FROM HER THAT WERE
SO INTENSETHAT MY COMPUTER AND THE SERVER CRASHED! SO I WAS UNABLE TO TYPE THE
WORDS BELOW THAT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO
SEE!
"THESE WEB PAGES
DESIGNED, MESSED UP, TORN TO PIECES, OBLITERATED AND DONATED
BY N4UJW @
Hamuniverse.com.
IT WAS MY PLEASURE TO ADD IT
TO HAMUNIVERSE.COMTO
HELP PROMOTE "THE 1721 GROUP AND HAM
RADIO". "
THEY MADE ME FEEL AT
HOME!" You may even hear me in
the group from time to time. I'll be the one with the weakest signal and the
Tennessee accent from
Texas! BEST
WISHES (73) TO THE GROUP FROM DON,
N4UJW HAMUNIVERSE.COM
FLASHs
and Updates! (Help us
keep up to date on the 1721 Group's activities....send us your
updates!) HAMFEST PICTURES FROM ALL
OVER! CLICK HEREOR HERE OR
HERE
NOW!
ANOTHER FLASH!!!" One of our longtime
members and one of our only active YL's on the group at the present time,
Sally (KG4NWS), has just been notified that she is the 2002 winner of
the YL International Single Side Band System QSO Party in the Single
Operator Phone Category". CONGRATULATIONS
SALLY FROM ALL THE 1721 GROUP TO VIEW THE AWARD CLICK HERE
(You will leave this
site)
FANTASTIC JOB AND HATS OFF
TO: TOM, KC8QGJ and others
for calling the group KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!
CHECK OUT MARK'S (KC8SGO) PROJECT A
HUSTLER MOBILE ANTENNA MATCH
IMPROVEMENT GET OUT ON
40 AND 20 WITH A BIG SIGNAL WHILE MOBILE!! CLICK
HERE!
Email from our
members:
"I have to tell you, this is probably the best web
site I have ever had the pleasure of visiting, keep up the good work, and
we need to press hard for old TOM, Hi Hi, to keep fishing because I will
be at the fest this year, and since I'm on the road, driving a truck all
over this good old USA, it
sure is good to hear the band and my ham family
back. It was a long and lonley winter without the 1721 group.. 73's
Dave Roberts" (kc9cdr)
Here is the
latest from an Ole timer who is no longer with us. He certainly knows his
stuff! "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long
cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los
Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same
way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only
difference is that there is no cat." Albert Einstein, when
asked to describe radio US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955)