This reminds me of being in Air Force MARS when I was stationed in Japan.
It was a 2m net, and I had the Icom IC-21; a very popular 2m FM-only
transceiver at that time.
During one of the nets, the net control operator commented about some
guys being off frequency.
Those IC-21s were crystal-controlled but, of course, crystals change
frequency with age.
There was a trimmer capacitor next to each crystal, but most of us had
no frequency standard to calibrate our radios.
The comment was met with a lot of "so what?" answers.
The net control operator pointed out that the procedure was to zero-beat
the NCS.
This really got people upset, which detracted from the purpose of the net.
Of course, he was correct about the procedure, but he said it in the
typical "brown-shoe lifer" tone.
Some guys even stopped checking in after that.
As you may have guessed, I had no problem re-acclimating to civilian
life after eight years, since I never got into the military mindset.
73 de Jim - AD6CW
On 2/22/2014 4:03 PM, k6jek wrote:
Even with a leader, it can be pretty amusing. I participate in a vintage
sideband roundtable most Tuesdays. We all tune to the roundtable leader.
Depending on what he's running we can end up 5 kHz from where we started if
somebody doesn't jump in and drag the whole conglomeration back. And many of
the people who have tuned to net control haven't really succeeded. Maybe the
tuned to where he used to be. Maybe they just couldn't hear what's right.
Jon, K6JEK
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