Are There Any Nationwide LDS HF Nets Active?

[KE0E]

Greetings from a new member (Dave, KE0E),

I just pulled my HF gear out of the box after several moves and a six-year hiatus. When I was last active on HF about ten years ago, there was a group that I checked into weekly with net control out of Utah. I participated out of the Denver Storehouse.

I remember check-ins mostly from the Western US and the Pacific. The net began each week on 20 meters. Net control worked us down to 40, then 80 and then 160 meters each week. We also did CW and packet work from time to time.

I looked through some of the entries under the "Nets" category but didn't see anything like that listed here.

Is anyone aware of any activity going on like this?

[wb7sgl]

In the time I have had this website up and running, I don't recall anyone publishing any information about HF nets. Plenty of questions about them, but no answers. I know there must be at least one HF net from Church Headquarters to the storehouses. I have heard that the storehouse here in Denver is able to communicate with SLC and St. Louis.

[KI6DKC]

They used to do it on Tuesday evenings.  All the storehouses would check in.  I haven't tried to listen in for over a year so I could not tell you which frequencies it is on.  Might just troll around the bands on Tuesday evenings until you find it.  I remember how neat it was listening to all the different storehouse locations checking in.

[w6zpc]

I check in regularly to the St. Louis Area Preparedness Net on 3.878 in the 75 meter band Tuesdays at 6:15 CDT. Regular check ins are heard from Nauvoo (IL), Columbia (MO), St. Louis, Cape Girardeau (MO), Paducah (KY), Indianapolis (IN) and on occasion Denver (CO).

[K4BSC]

I found this in my archives. Not sure if up to date:

ERC HEADQUARTERS NET SCHEDULE
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    Time                                                                 Frequency Mode         
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TUESDAY AFTERNOON
    1500 MST/MDT  20 SSB                            14.244 MHz USB 5 pm
 
TUESDAY EVENING (Wednesday UTC)
    0100 UTC       20 SSB                            14.244 MHz USB  9pm Summer
 
    0145 UTC       40 CW                              7.117 Mhz CW
 
    0200 UTC       40 SSB                              7.280 MHz LSB    10 pm
 
    0230 UTC       VoIP                              9259 (Channel 9 of the Western Reflector)   10:30pm
 
    0245 UTC       80 CW                              3.575 MHz CW   
 
    0300 UTC       80 SSB                              3.878 MHz LSB   11 pm
 
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Headquarters Frequencies for OTHER BANDS:
       30M  CW      10.129 MHz CW
       17M  SSB     18.163 MHz USB
       15M  SSB     21.363 MHz USB
       12M  SSB     24.963 MHz USB
       10M  SSB     28.363 MHz USB
 
Headquarters DIGITAL frequencies for CW, PACTOR, PSK31, etc.:
    1.988 MHz, 3.723 MHz, 7.063 MHz, 10.129 MHz, 14.063 MHz,
    18.093 MHz, 21.063 MHz, 24.923 MHz, and 28.063 MHz
 
Storehouse operators are encouraged to locate a local IRLP node that can be connected to channel 9 of the Western Reflector (node 9259) during net operations and in an emergency or when the above frequencies will not support signal propagation.  In addition, install EchoLink on a computer that can be used at the storehouse if a local IRLP node cannot be found or cannot be connected to 9259.  EchoLink Conference Server *ERC-ECS* (#328327) is bridged to 9259.
 
Headquarters operators will call a net on IRLP reflector 9259 at the time indicated on the net schedule to allow storehouses to contact Church headquarters by an alternate communication path.  IRLP Western Reflector 9259 (Channel 9 of the Western Reflector) will be monitored at headquarters during all emergency operations.

Brent - K4BSC