Next on the agenda is to keep our eye on the conditions. The Kp NET was very popular with Kp members and MANY others outside the Group as well. Only the Dx conditions can dictate weather or not we can organize the NET this year. I personally think it might be possible, even if only with limited participation. If the conditions will not permit, then we could always have fun with the Sunday morning Kp SkypeFest.

27.515 LSB is a MESS! At my location, 27.515 is the only active frequency. It's quite strange but while the entire 11 Mtr band is dead silent, 27.515 lsb is on fire in the Caribbean area. Unfortunately, 515L has become a haven for operators who have been trained on the AM'er ican CB band Channel 6. They all seem to have a huge problem conducting themselves in a "productive" / professional manor. HUGE signals from scratchy audio / over-driven / distorted microphones that spew SOLID gibberish. They  seem to have difficulty completing an English sentence without rhyming words.  "It's me,, kp 203, and that's how it's gonna be, it's only you and me, and that's all ya gonna see, and I just hurt my knee"... Now who can make any sense out of THAT?

It sounds like a menagerie,,, a ZOO. The only good thing it brings is that people in far away places (like in Europe hi hi) can use this frequency as a "Caribbean beacon". The zoo-keepers are a pair of odd-balls,, namely unit 69 transmitting out of Brooklyn New York (happy not to be living there anymore), and another nut-job "25 Rusty Hammer" transmitting out of Long Island NY. Often these operators use AM HANDLES rather than legitimate SSB call signs. Totally Low-Class (or should I say NO CLASS) operators.

On the flip side of the coin, I have found a whole LIST of professional operators on several Islands.... and THEY don't much care for the gibberish either. I have a good log of these operators and I'll post it here just as soon as I get more time. The main player is (new member) Mr. Junior Kp232 - Spanish Town, Jamaica, and 8 or 10 others on the Island. More on this later...  this is as of 26-July-2009.